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Project
Acronym:
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Name:
Extracting electric energy from human body for supplying autonomous biomedical devices and new PVDF transducer optimization
Project status:
From: 2010-04-10
To: 2012-04-10
(Completed)
Type (Programme):
BILAT
Project funding:
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International partner
Organisation Name:
University of Salento, DIpartimento d'Ingegneria dell'Inovazione
Organisation adress:
Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce
Organisation country:
Italija
Contact person name:
Aimé Lay-Ekuakille
Contact person email:
Croatian partner
Organisation name:
Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva
Organisation address:
Unska 3, 10000 Zagreb
Contact person name:
Prof.dr.sc. Roman Malarić
Contact person tel:
385 1 6129 650
Contact person fax:
385 1 6129 616
Contact person e-mail:
Short description of project
The human body has always been the topic of experience and electrical characterization. The exponential increase of portable electrical systems in the last two decades, and so their electrical needs, allowed researchers to look closer to the possible autonomy of these systems. In this context, several researches take place in order to collect and harvest energy from the human body. Different authors have developed a triaxial piezo-resistive accelerometer in order to register accelerations covering the amplitude and frequency ranges of human body acceleration. In diverse papers accelerations made by the human body were used to generate electrical power through a mechanical vibration into electric power converter. Using a piezoelectric cantilever, design a system to transform a part of mechanical energy generated by human limb motion into electrical energy. In some situations, different estimations of the energy available from various kinds of human movements and bodily sources are tabulated. Many human body energy sources availability are treated in like blood pressure, exhaling and breathing. An electricity scavenging system from forces exerted on a shoe during walking is spotlighted.
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
The ame as Italian, divided by 50-50 %.