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Article Dans Une Revue IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Année : 2024

A low-power MCU-based MPPT architecture with a fast impedance measurement for broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting

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This paper presents the combination of a fast and robust

MPPT algorithm called TLCM (Two-Load Characterization Method) and an efficient energy harvesting interface called RSC (Resistive Short-Circuit) for broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting. The proposed architecture is implemented using a low-power microcontroller (STM32L4) with its associated discrete electronics. The TLCM consists of an embedded impedance measurement that computes the piezoelectric impedance after two successive phase and voltage measurements. It calculates the optimal load impedance as the complex conjugate of the generator output impedance. It is up to 13 times faster than classical Perturbation and Observation algorithms. The complex conjugate impedance is then emulated by the RSC interface: a flyback converter emulates a resistive load while a variable duration short-circuit following the zero voltage instant emulates a capacitive load. This two-parameters electrical interface allows a 9.4% harvested power bandwidth, which is 35% more than for a fixed resistor. The whole system is tested at 0.5m/s² peak ambient acceleration and between 26Hz to 30Hz in standalone operation. In those conditions, the proposed system showed an end-to-end efficiency in the 65% to 80% range while consuming 21.5µW to 28.5µW, with a measurement duty cycle of 13%. It harvests a net maximum power of 157µW with a peak extracted power of 235µW.

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hal-04699929 , version 1 (17-09-2024)

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Nicolas Decroix, Pierre Gasnier, Adrien Morel, David Gibus, Adrien Badel. A low-power MCU-based MPPT architecture with a fast impedance measurement for broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2024, 39 (11), pp.14815-14826. ⟨10.1109/TPEL.2024.3434548⟩. ⟨hal-04699929⟩
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