Application of artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms in simulation-based optimal design of a piezoelectric energy harvester
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This paper tackles the problem of finding the optimal design parameters for a piezoelectric energy harvester. A new simulation-based optimization procedure is proposed with the goal of acquiring the optimal geometric and circuit design parameters that leads to higher energy harvesting efficiency and also enhances the obtained electrical power. The basis of the optimization platform is a numerical model of the energy harvesting system operating during electrical transient of charging an external storage capacitor. The model consists of a cantilever beam partially coated with piezoelectric patches, a non-linear interfacing and conditioning circuit, and a storage device. The numerical model simulates a complete energy harvesting scenario from piezoelectric transduction, to power enhancement and conditioning through interfacing circuit and energy storage. Two different case studies are considered for beams under harmonic tip-force, and harmonic base-excitation. Since performing multiple simulations in order to evaluate the objective function is computationally expensive and imposes time and space (memory) complexities, a more efficient Neural Network (NN) model is first trained based on a set of training data obtained from the numerical model. Performance and accuracy of the NN training is studied using available statistical methods. Second, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization performs a block-box optimization procedure, using the trained Neural Network model for objective function evaluation. Finally, a thorough analysis of the optimal design parameters obtained from the optimization process is provided.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".