A negative-work knee energy harvester based on homo-phase transfer for wearable monitoring devices.

ABSTRACT

Wearable health monitoring devices can effectively capture human body information and are widely used in health monitoring, but battery life is an important bottleneck in its development. A full negative-work energy harvester based on the homo-phase transfer mechanism by analyzing human motion characteristics was proposed in this paper. The system was designed based on the homo-phase transfer mechanism, including a motion input module, gear acceleration module, energy conversion module, and electric energy storage module. The output performance in three human-level, downhill, and running states was tested, respectively. Finally, we have evaluated the feasibility of an energy harvester powering wearable health monitoring devices, and the harvester can generate 17.40 J/day power, which can satisfy the normal operation of a typical health monitoring device. This study has certain promoting significance for the development of a new generation of human health monitoring.