Title :
An automated measurement bench for vibration-based energy harvesting systems
Author :
Kosmadakis, Ioannis ; Konstantakos, Vasileios ; Laopoulos, Th ; Siskos, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
A measurement bench has been developed to fully automate the procedure for the characterization of a vibration-based energy scavenging system. The measurement system is capable of monitoring all important characteristics of a vibration harvesting system (input and output voltage, current, and other parameters, frequency and acceleration values, etc). It is composed of a PC, typical digital measuring instruments (oscilloscope, waveform generator, etc), certain sensors and actuators, along with a microcontroller based automation module. The automation of the procedure and the manipulation of the acquired data are performed by LabVIEW software. Typical measurements of a system consisting of a vibrating source, a vibration transducer and an active rectifier are presented.
Keywords :
actuators; energy harvesting; oscilloscopes; power engineering computing; rectifiers; sensors; transducers; vibrations; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW software; acceleration values; active rectifier; actuators; automated measurement bench; current; frequency values; input voltage; microcontroller based automation module; oscilloscope; output voltage; sensors; vibrating source; vibration transducer; vibration-based energy harvesting systems; vibration-based energy scavenging system; waveform generator; Acceleration; Current measurement; Frequency measurement; Transducers; Vibration measurement; Vibrations; Voltage measurement; Automated measurement bench; LabVIEW; Vibration monitoring; energy harvesting;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems (IDAACS), 2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-1426-5
DOI :
10.1109/IDAACS.2013.6662631
