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Biomechanical Energy
Humans are a (COH), a
rich source of phone dimensionless
energy. An chargers (4). quantity
average-sized A limitation defined as the
person stores as of these con- addi-
much energy in ventional
fat as a 1000-kg methods is
battery (1, 2). that users
People use must focus
muscle to their attention
convert this on power
stored chemical generation at
energy into the expense
positive of other
mechanical activities,
work with peak typically
efficiencies of resulting in
about 25% (3). short bouts of
This work can generation.
be performed at For electrical
a high rate, power
with 100 W generation
easily over longer
sustainable (1). durations, it
Many devices would be
take advantage desirable to
of human harvest
Generating Electricity During Walking power capacity
to produce
energy from
everyday ac-
with Minimal User Effort electricity,
including hand-
tivities such
as walking.
crank It is a
]. M. Donelan,1* Q. Li,1 V. Naing,1 ]. A. Hoffer,1 D. ]. Weber,2 A. D. Kuo3 generators as challenge,
well as wind-up however, to
We have developed a biomechanical energy harvester that generates electricity during human flashlights, produce sub-
walking with little extra effort. Unlike conventional human-powered generators that use radios, and stantial
positive muscle work, our technology assists muscles in performing negative work, mobile electricity
analogous to regenerative braking in hybrid cars, where energy normally dissipated during from walking.
braking drives a generator instead. The energy harvester mounts at the knee and selectively
1
School of
Kinesiology, Most energy-
engages power generation at the end of the swing phase, thus assisting deceleration of the Simon Fraser harvesting
joint. Test subjects walking with one device on each leg produced an average of 5 watts of University (SFU), research has
electricity, which is about 10 times that of shoe-mounted devices. The cost of harvesting — Burnaby, BC V5A focused on
the additional metabolic power required to produce 1 watt of electricity —is less than one- 1S6,
2
Canada.
generating
Department of
eighth of that for conventional human power generation. Producing substantial electricity Physical Medicine electricity
with little extra effort makes this method well-suited for charging powered prosthetic limbs and Rehabilitation, from the
and other portable medical devices. University of compression
Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA of the shoe
15213, USA. sole, with the
3
Departments of best devices
Mechanical generating 0.8
Engineering and
Biomedical
W (4). A
Engineering, noteworthy
University of departure is a
Michigan, Ann spring-loaded
Arbor, MI 48109,
USA.
backpack (5)
that harnesses
*To whom
correspondence the vertical
should be oscillations of
addressed. E-mail: a 38-kg load to
mdonelan@sfu.ca generate as
much as 7.4 W
of electricity
during fast
walking. This
device has a
markedly low
“cost of
harvesting”
A The feature of how
me backpack’s humans walk
tab
oli device may provide
c efficiency is another means
po about 31% (5), of economical
we and muscle’s energy
r
COH = ( 1) peak harvesting.
A Muscles
electri efficiency is
cal about 25% (3), cyclically
power
yielding an perform
where A refers expected COH positive and
to the difference of 12.9. But negative
between walk- the backpack’s mechanical
ing while actual COH of work within
harvesting 4.8 ± 3.0 each stride
energy and (mean ± SD) (Fig. 1A) (8).
walking while is less than Mechanical
carrying the 40% of the work is
device but expected required to
without amount. Its redirect the
harvesting economy body’s center
energy. The appears to of mass
COH for arise from between steps
conventional reducing the (9, 10) and
power energy simply to move
generation is expenditure of the legs back
simply related walking with and forth (11,
to the efficiency loads (6, 7). 12). Even
with which (i) No device has though the
the device yet average
converts approached mechanical
the power work
mechanical
performed on
work to elec- generation of
the body over
tricity and (ii) the backpack
an entire stride
muscles convert without the
need to carry a is zero, walking
chemical energy
exacts a
into positive heavy load.
We propose metabolic cost
work
that a key because both
1 =__________________(2)
device eff x muscle eff