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It is hypothesized that when the wheel rotates at variable speeds, the energy harvester is subjected to on-road noise as ambient excitations and a tangentially acting gravity force as a periodic modulation force, which can stimulate stochastic resonance. The energy harvester was miniaturized with a bistable cantilever structure, and the on-road noise was measured for the implementation of a vibrator in an experimental setting. A validation experiment revealed that the harvesting system was optimized to capture power that was approximately 12 times that captured under only on-road noise excitation and 50 times that captured under only the periodic gravity force. Moreover, the investigation of up-sweep excitations with increasing rotational frequency confirmed that stochastic resonance is effective in optimizing the performance of the energy harvester, with a certain bandwidth of vehicle speeds. An actual-vehicle experiment validates that the prototype harvester using stochastic resonance is capable of improving power generation performance for practical tire application.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s16101727","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,10,17]],"date-time":"2016-10-17T10:33:16Z","timestamp":1476700396000},"page":"1727","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":66,"title":["Effectiveness Testing of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for an Automobile Wheel Using Stochastic Resonance"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1950-1158","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yunshun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4346-2881","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rencheng","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan"}]},{"given":"Keisuke","family":"Shimono","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, 2-24-16, Naka-cho, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8588, Japan"}]},{"given":"Tsutomu","family":"Kaizuka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan"}]},{"given":"Kimihiko","family":"Nakano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1, Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,10,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"22","DOI":"10.1109\/MCS.2007.909477","article-title":"Tire pressure monitoring applications of control","volume":"27","author":"Velupillai","year":"2007","journal-title":"IEEE Control Syst. 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