We probe the potential for intelligent intervention to enhance the power output of energy harvesters. We investigate general principles and a case study: a bi-resonant piezo electric harvester. We consider intelligent interventions via pre-programmed reversible energy-conserving operations. We find that in important parameter regimes these can outperform diode-based intervention, which in contrast has a fundamental minimum power dissipation bound.
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@article{arxiv.1806.10989,
title = {On intelligent energy harvesting},
author = {Feiyang Liu and Yulong Zhang and Oscar Dahlsten and Fei Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.10989},
year = {2018}
}