Wearable Energy-Electronic Devices and Their Integration System Toward On-body Wearable Microgrids
발표자
김경남 (충남대학교)
연구책임자
김경남 (충남대학교)
초록
내용
The rapid advancement of wearable sensing and interfacing electronics brings growing challenges in achieving sustainability and energy autonomy. The long-term and reliable operation of these autonomous systems depends on the smart integration of energy harvesting and storage modules, along with their control and regulation circuits. However, current self-powered wearable systems often lack system-level energy management strategies, which limits their efficiency, reliability, and practicality. Reframing these technologies through the lens of wearable microgrids offers a new perspective for developing reliable, energy-efficient systems. By strategically integrating distributed on-body energy harvesters with energy storage components and decentralized hierarchical control, continuous and sustainable device operation becomes feasible. This work presents a vision for wearable microgrids based on application-specific, performance-matched combinations of harvesters and storage elements.