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This paper deals with the development of a software to support the development of road pavement energy harvesting devices, allowing to define the device parameters and simulate the entire process from the vehicle-device interaction to the electric energy generation and consumption. This allows to quantify the forces induced and energy released from vehicles to the device in different vehicle motion scenarios, the energy harvested by the device surface, the energy transferred by the mechanical system and the energy generated and consumed by the electrical system. It enables the user to quantify the energetic efficiency of the process. A practical study is presented in order to show the effectiveness of the software, as well as its potential applications.
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The present research work has been carried out in the framework of project PAVENERGY – Pavement Energy Harvest Solutions (PTDC/ECM-TRA/3423/2014), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016676) through the Operational Program for Competitiveness Factors (COMPETE) and by national funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). The author Francisco Duarte is also grateful to the FCT by Grant SFRH/BD/95018/2013. The authors also thank the ACIV for its financial contribution for the presentation of this research work in the 5th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies.
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Duarte, F., Ferreira, A., Fael, P. (2017). Software to Support the Development of Road Pavement Energy Harvesting Devices. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_79
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