Assessment of MEMS energy harvester for medical applications

conference paper

English

This paper assesses the feasibility of the energy harvesting principle for the development of an autonomous power supply unit for a new generation of biomedical devices, e.g. artificial cochlear implants. Requirements for the harvester are set based on a research of power demands of state-of-the-art medical devices. Feasible methods of the energy conversion are then reviewed, and a simulation model of the generic energy harvester is developed. Acceleration in the head area of the user is measured and used as an input excitation for the model. Possible course of the follow-up research is outlined based on simulation and measurement results. © (2015) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.

Energy harvesting, human motion, biomedical systems

SMILEK, J.; HADAŠ, Z.

2015

21. 5. 2015

SPIE

Bellingham, Washington, USA

9781628416442

Proc. SPIE 9517, Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS VII; and Cyber Physical Systems

0277-786X

Proceedings of SPIE

9517

United States of America

95170N

95177N

8

http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2298967