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Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine

Taghavi, Majid; Stinchcombe, Andrew; Greenman, John; Mattoli, Virgilio; Beccai, Lucia; Mazzolai, Barbara; Melhuish, Chris; Ieropoulos, Ioannis

Authors

Majid Taghavi

Andrew Stinchcombe

Virgilio Mattoli

Lucia Beccai

Barbara Mazzolai

Chris Melhuish Chris.Melhuish@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Robotics & Autonomous Systems



Contributors

Michael Mistry
Editor

Ale� Leonardis
Editor

Mark Witkowski
Editor

Abstract

A new generation of self-sustainable and wearable Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs) is introduced. Two different types of energy - chemical energy found in urine and mechanical energy harvested by manual pumping - were converted to electrical energy. The wearable system is fabricated using flexible MFCs with urine used as the feedstock for the bacteria, which was pumped by a manual foot pump. The pump was developed using check valves and soft tubing. The MFC system has been assembled within a pair of socks. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.

Citation

Taghavi, M., Stinchcombe, A., Greenman, J., Mattoli, V., Beccai, L., Mazzolai, B., …Ieropoulos, I. (2014). Wearable self sufficient MFC communication system powered by urine. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 8717 LNAI, 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12

Journal Article Type Conference Paper
Conference Name 15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014
Conference Location Birmingham, UK
Publication Date Jan 1, 2014
Deposit Date Sep 14, 2015
Journal Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Print ISSN 0302-9743
Electronic ISSN 1611-3349
Publisher Springer Verlag
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 8717 LNAI
Pages 131-138
Series Title Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12
Keywords robotics, user interfaces and human computer interaction, data mining and knowledge discovery, computation by abstract devices, microbial fuel cell, MFC, urine, energy, wearable system
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1434798
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10401-0_12
Additional Information Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : Advances in Autonomous Robotics Systems, 15th Annual Conference, TAROS 2014