DEVELOPMENT AND BASIC STUDY ON MICRO HYDROELECTRIC GENERATOR USING INVERTED PENDULUM

Abstract

 Ensuring a power source is one of the important issues for realizing an IoT society in which all things are connected to the Internet. Therefore, energy harvesting, which is an alternative power supply technology, is drawing attention. The authors are developing a micro hydroelectric generator using an inverted pendulum. In this study, we conducted hydraulic experiments on the effect of changes in flow velocity on pendulum motion and power generation. As a result, it was clarified that the power generator has a pendulum motion in the direction orthogonal to the water flow and generates power at a flow velocity of 0.32 m/s or more.