Potential Power Output from Vehicle Suspension Energy Harvesting Given Bumpy and Random-Surfaced Roads
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2024-08
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Sustainability (Switzerland), Volume 16, issue 16, pp. 1-16
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The energy efficiency of vehicles is a crucial challenge relating to sustainable energy preservation and regeneration methods. Regenerative breaking has proven feasible, and there is interest in whether harvesting energy from a vehicle’s suspension is similarly feasible. We here provide methods for estimating the amount of power that can be regenerated from the suspension for given vehicle and road parameters. We show that a reasonable road model is a generalised Gaussian process known as AR(1). Using this model, we can derive the key equation used in the ISO 8608 standard for measuring road roughness, such that the AR(1) parameters can be related to the measured road roughness data. We find that the road roughness coefficient of ISO 8608 and the diffusion coefficient of the AR(1) road are equal up to a factor. We provide an analytical expression for the maximum amount of power that can be generated for given road and car parameters, derived via Fourier analysis. We further model harvesting from large bumps using Simulink. These results help to estimate the potential power output given the measured road data.Description
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AR(1) Gaussian road, quarter car, regenerative vehicle suspension energy harvesting
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Guo, H, Zeng, W, Egloff, D, Meng, F & Dahlsten, O 2024, ' Potential Power Output from Vehicle Suspension Energy Harvesting Given Bumpy and Random-Surfaced Roads ', Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 16, no. 16, 6964, pp. 1-16 . https://doi.org/10.3390/su16166964