Abstract:In order to solve the selfpowering problem of wireless sensors in intelligent wheels, a piezoelectric selfpowered intelligent wheel is proposed, which enhances the practicality and safety of existing wheel energy harvesting technology. The piezoelectric cantilever beam is fixed in the spoke, which generates periodic excitation with the gravity effect of the free end mass block in rotation. In order to avoid direct collision with the spoke, a safety limiting structure is designed. Through establishing the electromechanical dynamics model of the system, the parameters of the device are designed for the R16sized rim. An experiment platform was built to achieve the load optimization and study the influence of the limiting pitch on the harvesting performance. In order to fully evaluate the performance of the piezoelectric selfpowered intelligent wheel, a prototype experiment was carried out on a real vehicle. The results show that the harvesting device designed in this paper can obtain the energy of 643~8660 μW at 50~70 km/h, which provides the possibility of establishing a selfpowered intelligent wheel system without maintenance.