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https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-14-77-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-14-77-2023
Research article
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23 Feb 2023
Research article |  | 23 Feb 2023

A piezoelectric energy harvester for human body motion subjected to two different transversal reciprocating excitations

Weigao Ding and Jin Xie

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In this paper, we propose a piezoelectric energy harvester for human body motion. Based on an analysis of dynamics equations, we find that such a piezoelectric energy harvester performs very well, especially at lower frequencies. We suggest that the piezoelectric beam of an energy harvester subjected to multi-excitation with different modes of motion is quite suitable for harvesting energy from human body motions.