Paper Title
Parametric Study of Cantilevered Piezoelectric Harvester Using Analytical Model

Abstract
The parameters of a simple cantilever harvester were optimized to maximize the power generation from ambient mechanical energy. A distributed parameter model and its modal solution were used to identify the design variables through a parametric study. It is of interest to ensure adequate power generation under non-resonant conditions for a broadband excitation. The average power within a certain frequency range was used as the cost function to define optimization problem along with some geometric and physical constraints. It was found that, for different frequency ranges, various parameters’ values can be used to generate different maximum power values. Keywords - Piezoelectric, Energy Harvesting, Optimization