A car wheel energy harvesting system regarded as a robotic kinematic chain system

Issue title: Electromagnetic Fields in Mechatronics, Computer Sciences, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Guest editors: Sławomir Wiak, Paolo Di Barba and Evelina Mognaschi

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Bijak, Joanna^a; | Trawiński, Tomasz^a | Szczygieł, Marcin^a

Affiliations: [a] Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Mechatronics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Joanna Bijak, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Mechatronics, Silesian University of Technology Gliwice, Poland. E-mail: joanna.bijak@polsl.pl

Abstract: The aim of this article is the mathematical modeling of the car wheel with an energy harvester. The car wheel will be represented as a 3-DoF robotic kinematic chain. The Matlab program has been used to simulate the movement of the car wheel and the movement of the electromagnetic energy harvester located on the tire of the wheel. Simulation of the movement of the energy harvesting element allows us to compute the energy harvested in such a system.

Keywords: Energy harvesting, car wheel vibration, homogeneous transformation, kinematic chain

DOI: 10.3233/JAE-210216

Journal: International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 263-278, 2022