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Design of Micro Energy Harvesting System using Thermoplastic Polyurethane and Buck-boost Converter

열가소성 폴리우레탄과 벅-부스트 컨버터를 이용한 마이크로 에너지 포집시스템 설계

  • 손영대 (동서대학교 전자공학과) ;
  • 김규현 (동서대학교 에너지/생명공학부)
  • Received : 2011.01.20
  • Accepted : 2011.02.21
  • Published : 2011.03.01
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Abstract

This paper proposes the design of micro energy harvesting system by using thermoplastic polyurethane(TPU), which harvests electric energy from the kinetic energy of pedestrian and drives the desired load, and applied it to the self-generating shoes. Also, we designed the buck-boost converter in discontinuous conduction mode(DCM) which functions as a resistor emulator(RE) such that converter's average input current is proportional to input voltage, and it results in transfer of maximum power to buck-boost converter according to control behavior that converter's input resistance is matched with TPU's internal resistance. Therefore, this paper confirms the validity of proposed control scheme and possibility of application for self-generating shoes, from the obtained characteristic of designed micro energy harvesting system by using a TPU and buck-boost converter in DCM.

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