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Figure 5

From: Development of a biomechanical energy harvester

Figure 5

The control system used knee angle, angular velocity and time delays to engage and disengage power generation. A) Knee joint angle measured using a potentiometer. B) Knee joint angular velocity determined from time differentiation of the filtered knee joint angle. C) Measured electrical power. D) Control signal with "on" indicating that the switch is closed engaging the power generation circuit. Vertical line a, b, c and d denote the start of swing extension, stance flexion, stance extension and swing flexion, respectively. The control system engages power generation at the end of swing extension by adding a delay to the detected onset of swing extension. The control system disengages power generation before the start of stance extension, but after stance flexion to harvest energy from the inertia of the transmission and generator, by adding a delay to the detected onset of stance flexion.

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