Energy harvesting of nonlinear damping system under time delayed feedback gain

Abstract

This paper presents the application of delayed feedback velocity for optimizing the harvested power in cubic nonlinear damper system. We consider a harvester consisting of a nonlinear single degree of freedom system (spring-masse-damper) subjected to a base excitation near the primary resonance. Analytical investigation using the multiple scales method is performed to obtain approximation of the amplitude response. This amplitude can be used to extract the average power. Results show that for appropriate values of the feedback gain, energy harvesting is more efficient at resonance compared to the cubic nonlinear damper system without time delay.