Experimental measurement of energy harvesting with backpack

Radka Pavelkova; David Vala; Pavel Suranek; Miroslav Mahdal

doi:10.1117/12.2280822

7 August 2017 Experimental measurement of energy harvesting with backpack

Radka Pavelkova, David Vala, Pavel Suranek, Miroslav Mahdal

Proceedings Volume 10445, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High Energy Physics Experiments 2017; 104455X (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2280822
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2017, 2017, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

This article deals with the energy harvesting systems, especially the energy harvesting backpack, which appears as a convenient means for energy harvesting for mobile sensors power. Before starting the experiment, it was necessary to verify whether this energy will be sufficient to get acquainted with the human kinematics and analyze problematics itself. For this purpose there was used motion capture technology from Xsens. Measured data on the position of a particle moving man and back when walking, these data were then used for experimental realization of energy harvesting backpack and as input data to the simulation in Simulink, which brought us a comparison between theoretical assumptions and practical implementation. When measuring characteristics of energy harvesting system we have a problem with measurements on backpack solved when redoing of the hydraulic cylinder as a source of a suitable movement corresponding to the amplitude and frequency of human walk.

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Radka Pavelkova, David Vala, Pavel Suranek, and Miroslav Mahdal "Experimental measurement of energy harvesting with backpack", Proc. SPIE 10445, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High Energy Physics Experiments 2017, 104455X (7 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2280822

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