An optimal design for piezoelectric energy harvesting system

Abstract

This paper illustrates the method of optimal energy harvesting using piezoelectric transducers embedded in a mat structure. The energy generated when some load is applied on the mat containing piezoelectric transducers depend not only on the number of transducers, area of mat, thickness of the transducers but also on the scheme of arrangement. Here we have tested the successful electricity generation using piezoelectric transducer integrated mat and has tried to optimize the design arrangement for the same. The generated power is stored in a storage device. The result obtained portrays a physical setup for the energy harvest with an optimized structure implemented on a two dimensional base.