Energy Harvesting and Control
Project Description
Harvesting-based sensors are regarded to be a scalable, environmentally-friendly design paradigm for distributed cyber-physical systems. These nodes can be deployed and placed as needed to provide high quality sensor data, irrespective of the availability of wired power and wired communication.
When integrated as part of an automatic control application, the limited energy availability of subsystems of the distributed control system has significant implications on the performance of the controller. For the design of autonomous, energy-neutral automatic control systems, the control algorithms, communication, computation, energy-harvesting subsystems, and energy control are co-designed.
At TEC, we investigate the theoretical and practical challenges of employing harvesting-based nodes in distributed control systems.
The research is financed by the National Centres of Competences in Research external page(NCCR) Automation on Depedable Ubiquitous Automationcall_made.
Publications
A selection of publications related to theEnergy Harvesting and Control are listed below. For a more extensive list and links to the documents, please check our publication database.
- S. Draskovic, L. Thiele. "Optimal Power Management for Energy Harvesting Systems with A Backup Power Source", 10th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO) 2021 Jun 7 (pp. 1-9). IEEE.
- N. Stricker, L. Thiele. "Analysing and Improving Robustness of Predictive Energy Harvesting Systems", In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys '20)