Imagine that your phone runs out of power when you are outdoors and you forget bringing your power bank! You will never have this trouble if you could generate power by yourself when hiking.
This project is a continuing project, aiming to improve the existing design of a wearable energy harvesting system that could harness kinetic energy during walking. The improvements of this device will be from both structural optimization and power management perspectives. The expectations of this device are:
* It is expected to be installed on shoe or in the backpack.
* It could efficiently converting low-frequency human motions to high-frequency rotations for power generation.
* It should be lightweight and can be driven with minimal human effort.
* Power management will be customized for efficiently charging a power bank or a phone.
Undergraduate
The performance for charging a power bank or a phone using the prototyped device will be experimentally evaluated.
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Dynamics & Control Lab (405.852, Lab)