BOCCALERO , Gregorio

The topic of the research is the development of a novel energy harvester exploiting fluids in motion. FLEHAP device (Fluttering Energy Harvester for Autonomous Powering, patent pending), conceived and developed at DIFI of University of Genova, is an aeroelastic flutter-based system of an airfoil exploiting an electromagnetic coupling (EMc) and...

Flapping states of an energy harvesting device have been investigated by means of experiments, numerical simulations and a phenomenological model. The main aim is to predict the geometrical/physical properties of the system allowing sustained flapping limit cycles to emerge. These latter regimes are interesting when the system is used to...

The development of the Internet of Things infrastructure requires the deployment of millions of heterogeneous sensors embedded in the environment. The powering of these sensors cannot be done with wired connections, and the use of batteries is often impracticable. Energy harvesting is the common proposed solution, and many devices have been...

Flapping states of an energy harvesting device have been investigated by means of experiments, numerical simulations and a phenomenological model. The main aim is to predict the geometrical/physical properties of the system allowing sustained flapping limit cycles to emerge. These latter regimes are interesting when the system is used to...

The growth of the IoT infrastructure requires the development of new devices able to harvest energy from the environment to power Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) nodes. Among the available sources (light, mechanical vibrations, temperature differences...), air flow can represent a good choice in many cases: we consider not only a natural wind,...

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