Giancarlo Gelao

Collins Aerospace Applied Research & Technology · Connected and Real-time system

div class="section abstract"> Protecting against atmospheric icing conditions is critical for the safety of aircraft during flight. Sensors and probes are often used to indicate the presence of icing conditions, enabling the aircraft to exit the icing cloud and engage their ice protection systems. Supercooled large drop (SLD) icing conditions, whic...

An ice detection system for an aircraft surface, comprising a sensor assembly (10) comprising a plurality of temperature sensitive elements configured to be arranged at respective points on the aircraft surface, a control unit (20) arranged to receive signals indicative of a temperature sensed by each of the temperature sensitive elements, a signal...

The purpose of this work is to model and simulate a harvester device, which is able to recover energy from the vibrations due to the irregularity of the rail and to store it to power a wireless sensor node. The use of a piezoelectric harvester, instead of traditional batteries, allows the achievement of an energetically autonomous system, which do...

The purpose of this work is to model and simulate a harvester device, which is able to recover energy from the vibrations due to the irregularity of the rail and to store it to power a wireless sensor node. The use of a piezoelectric harvester, instead of traditional batteries, allows the achievement of an energetically autonomous system, which do...

Energy Harvesting (EH) is the science that studies the conversion of energy dispersed in environment into a different and more useful form of energy, mainly the electrical one. In recent years, several energy-harvesting devices using piezoelectric materials have been developed to transform environmental vibrations into electrical energy. Since most...

In last decades the increasing need to produce energy in not traditional ways has brought researchers in looking for finding cheap and not polluting alternative sources of energy. This caused a growing interest towards Energy Harvesting (EH) as a science that tries to capture energy from environment (wind, rain, natural vibrations) and converts it...

The aim of this paper is to model and simulate a cantilever beam as energy harvester to expose to wind vibrations. A mathematical model describes the behavior of cantilever beam and the electromechanical coupling, using piezoelectric constitutive equations. An experimental setup of a fixed configuration (dimensions, materials, boundaries and shape...

Energy Harvesting tries to capture “minute amounts of energy from one or more of the surrounding energy sources, accumulating them and storing them for later use”. Energy is everywhere around us also in natural vibrations and one kind of vibration energy source is wind energy, available in every place of the world. In recent years, several energy-h...