Abstract: Micro generators are suitable replacement for limited life power supplies which could supply electronic devices. This method of energy harvesting converts mechanical vibrations into electrical output power. Electromagnetic transduction method has more advantages in comparison with other methods and it is considered to be applied in this work. The output voltage of micro generator is depended on input mechanical acceleration. Analysis of output voltage could estimate the input acceleration. In this work, transient response of micro generator is studied to achieve input mechanical acceleration. For this purpose, RBF (Radial Basis Function) Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is trained with transient output voltage of power harvester to estimate the input mechanical acceleration. The results illustrate that, combination of electromagnetic micro generator model with ANN could be an applied and innovative sensor to estimate mechanical acceleration.
Keywords: Electromagnetic micro generator; Energy harvesting; Mechanical vibrations; Electrical power; Mechanical acceleration; RBF (Radial Basis Function); ANN (Artificial Neural Network); Sensor.
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