Author： Cha Youngsu Hong Jin Lee Jaemin Park Jung-Min Kim Keehoon
Publisher： MDPI
E-ISSN： 1424-8220|16|7|1045-1045
ISSN： 1424-8220
Source： Sensors, Vol.16, Iss.7, 2016-07, pp. : 1045-1045
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Abstract
In this paper, we study energy harvesting from the mouse click motions of a robot finger and a human index finger using a piezoelectric material. The feasibility of energy harvesting from mouse click motions is experimentally and theoretically assessed. The fingers wear a glove with a pocket for including the piezoelectric material. We model the energy harvesting system through the inverse kinematic framework of parallel joints in a finger and the electromechanical coupling equations of the piezoelectric material. The model is validated through energy harvesting experiments in the robot and human fingers with the systematically varying load resistance. We find that energy harvesting is maximized at the matched load resistance to the impedance of the piezoelectric material, and the harvested energy level is tens of nJ.
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