Publication detail

Electromagnetic Trackside Vibration Energy Harvester with Cantilever Beams Spring

RUBEŠ, O. BEŇO, M. SOSNA, P. HADAŠ, Z.

English title

Electromagnetic Trackside Vibration Energy Harvester with Cantilever Beams Spring

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original abstract

Railway tracks are a great source of vibrations and need to be monitored. These vibrations could be converted to electric energy with an energy harvester, and it could be used as source of energy for autonomous trackside monitoring systems. This paper analyses acceleration data from one specific railway with different passing trains. This analysis brings requirements for a vibration energy harvester. The novel concept of an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester with cantilever beam spring is designed to achieve the set requirements. This concept is cheaper and easier for fabrication and could reach higher frequencies than the traditional concept with magnetic spring. Finally, the fabrication and experimental validation demonstrate the functionality of the designed energy harvester.

English abstract

Railway tracks are a great source of vibrations and need to be monitored. These vibrations could be converted to electric energy with an energy harvester, and it could be used as source of energy for autonomous trackside monitoring systems. This paper analyses acceleration data from one specific railway with different passing trains. This analysis brings requirements for a vibration energy harvester. The novel concept of an electromagnetic vibration energy harvester with cantilever beam spring is designed to achieve the set requirements. This concept is cheaper and easier for fabrication and could reach higher frequencies than the traditional concept with magnetic spring. Finally, the fabrication and experimental validation demonstrate the functionality of the designed energy harvester.

Keywords in English

Energy Harvester, Electromagnetics, Cantilever, Stiffness, Power Estimation, Railways

Released

07.12.2022

Publisher

IEEE

Location

Pilsen

ISBN

978-1-6654-1040-3

Book

Proceedings of the 2022 20th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika (ME)

Pages count

5

BIBTEX


@inproceedings{BUT181451,
  author="Ondřej {Rubeš} and Martin {Beňo} and Petr {Sosna} and Zdeněk {Hadaš},
  title="Electromagnetic Trackside Vibration Energy Harvester with Cantilever Beams Spring",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 2022 20th International Conference on Mechatronics - Mechatronika (ME)",
  year="2022",
  month="December",
  publisher="IEEE",
  address="Pilsen",
  isbn="978-1-6654-1040-3"
}