1.China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation,Beijing 100048,China
2.State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Dynamic Measurement Technology and Instrumentation for Extreme Environments,North University of China,Taiyuan 030051,China
Harvesting wide-band random vibration energy in the environment to power various types of sensors and monitoring devices in vehicles is a potentially effective way. However, conventional energy harvesters struggle to achieve a stable output, which poses a challenge to the design of energy management circuits. In this paper, a low-frequency vibration energy harvester for vehicle dynamic monitoring is proposed, including a counterweight unit, gearbox, and generator. The counterweight unit effectively senses the low-frequency weak vibration, and realizes energy storage and release through the embedded and externally-embedded tightening energy storage system of the gear box, and finally realizes the steady-state release of energy by the generator wheel system, to realize the efficient conversion of the vibration energy to electric energy, and provide continuous power supply for the sensing system. Experiments show that the harvester can effectively harvest wind-band vibration in the range of 3~18 Hz, and when the resonant frequency is 6 Hz, the maximum average power released by the harvester is 34.9 mW. with an output energy of 58 mJ, which can charge a 22 mF capacitor to 10.95 V in 100 s. This technology can efficiently harvest low-frequency vibration energy during vehicle operation, which has far-reaching guiding significance for the development of micro-energy harvesting technology.
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