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A REVIEW ON FOOTSTEP POWER

GENERATION USING RACK AND PINION
MECHANISM
Snehal Patil1, Prachi Kothale2, Pratibha Chothe3, Sourabh Patil4,
S. P. Gaikwad5, S. B. Patil6.
1, 2,3,4, Under Graduate Students.
5Assistant Professor, 6Professor.
Department of Mechanical and Electronics Engineering,
Dr. J. J. Magdum College of Engineering. Jaysingpur, Maharashtra, India.
Abstract: Nowadays energy and power is basic necessities of modern world . As the demand of energy is increasing day by day
and the solution of that problem to use renewable sources like sun. Renewable source means to generate electricity from daily life.
The objective of this work is power generation through footstep as a source of renewable energy that we can obtained while
walking/steping on to the certain arrangement like footpath, stairs, roads etc. and we are also used in public places like railway
station, bus stand, parks and college campus also. The basic working principle of footstep power generation system is based on rack
and pinion mechanism.
Keywords – Rack and Pinion gear, Renewable source, Footstep, Electricity.

I. INTRODUCTION
Electric energy consumption is the form of energy consumption that uses electric energy. Electric energy consumption is the actual
energy demand made on existing electricity supply for transportation, residential, industrial, commercial, and other miscellaneous
purpose. China, United States, and India accounted for over 50% of the global share of electricity consumption. The moto of the
project is utilization of waste energy. When human walk on the roads or footpath or any certain platform he losses his energy on that
platform. So we store this wasted energy and utilize it to produce renewable energy. There are lots of crowded places, so large amount
of power can be obtained with the use of this technology. While we step on that certain platform, it goes down and rack and pinion
arrangement works which rotate the DC motor. Through DC motor the rotational energy is converted into electrical energy. This
electrical energy output will be shown by glowing the LED and Display. This project is to develop a new source of renewable energy
with the help of Arduino Uno as the microcontroller. The footstep power generation system is to capture the typically wasted energy
surrounding a system and transforming it into electrical energy. The technique used in gaining the energy is via rack and pinion
mechanism. Non-conventional energy using footstep needs no fuel input power to generate the electrical power. This is one of the
compact and efficient system for generating electricity which can be easily installed in many regions.
II. LITERATURE REVIEW

According to T.R. Deshmukh paper deals with design and modelling of parts of the model of the foot step power generation system
using 3D modelling software creo. This process consist number of simple setup that is installed under the walking or standing
platform. Project system works on the principle of converting the linear motion because to pressure of foot steps into rotating motion
by rack and pinion arrangement. This mechanism fails if there is any occurrence of variable load leads to balancing type problems
Power is not generated during return movement of rack.
We have used rack and pinion mechanism, in other projects they have used spring and chain mechanism and piezoelectric sensors.
In this project rack and pinion mechanism is connected to charging circuit and this charging circuit charges the battery. Through
Arduino output will be displayed on LCD in which footstep count and voltage of a battery is displayed.
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III. EASE OF USE
Fig.-1 Block diagram of Footstep Power Generation using Rack and Pinion Mechanism
IV. HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
i. Gear Meachanism :
A rack and pinion is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear engaging a linear gear, which operate
to translate rotational motion into linear motion. Driving the pinion into rotation cause the rack to be driven linearly.
Driving the rack linearly will cause the pinion to be driven into a rotation.
ii. Battery :
In our paper we are using secondary type battery. It is rechargeable type. A battery is one or more electrochemical
cells, which store chemical energy and make it available as electric current. There are two types of batteries,
primary(disposable) and secondary(rechargeable), both of which convert chemical energy to electrical energy.
iii. Arduino :
The Arduino Uno is an open-source microcontroller board based on the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller
and developed by Arduino.cc. The board is equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output pins that may be interfaced
to various expansion boards and other circuits. The board has 14 digital I/O pins, 6 analog I/O pins, and is programmable
with the Arduino IDE, via a type B USB cable.
iv. Dynamo :
A dynamo is an electrical generator that creates direct current using a commutator. Dynamos were the first
electrical generators capable of delivering power for industry, and the foundation upon which many other later electric-
power conversion devices were based, including the electric motor, the alternating-current alternator, and the rotary
converter.
v. Display :
A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other electronically modulated optical device that uses
the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers. Liquid crystals do not emit light directly,
instead using a backlight or reflector to produce images in color or monochrome.
vi. Sensor :
IR sensor is an electronic device, that emits the light in order to sense some object of the surroundings. An IR
sensor can measure the heat of an object as well as detects the motion. Usually, in the infrared spectrum, all the objects
radiate some from of thermal radiation.
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Fig.-2 Padel Energy Generate-model
V. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The Footstep Power Generation, here we proposed a power generation technique through rack and pinion arrangement the
project aims to convert Mechanical energy into Electrical energy. We are trying to utilize energy in a useful way. By using Rack
and Pinion arrangement we are converting to and fro motion of the steps into rotational motion of the dynamo. A rack and pinion
is a type of linear actuator that comprises a circular gear engaging a linear gear, which operate to translate rotational motion into
linear motion. In this we are using rack and pinion arrangement directly to rotate the dynamo. Through dynamo the rotational energy
is converted into electrical energy. This electrical energy output will be shown by glowing the LEDs and Display and stored in the
Battery. An IR sensor can detects the motion of the paddle.
For one Footstep approximately 10 mv electricity is generated
VI. CONCLUSION
In proposed system of power generation there is no any fuel input requirement for the generation of electrical power. Thus it can
also be concluded that this mode of power generation system is eco-friendly, i.e. no pollution is caused during the generation of
power using this type of model. Hence due to such advantages, this system can be embedded at any of the public places like railway
platforms, busy foot-paths, malls etc.
Implementing this system, dependency on the conventional sourcesof energy can be reduced, thus it is considered as beneficial
for nature and human life.
REFERENCES
1) Abhishek N, Shivasharana Yalag, “Power Generation by Foot Steps Using Rack and Pinion Arrangement”,
International Journal of Engineering Research and Advanced Technology, volume 02 Issue 01, pp 2454-6135 2016.
2) Joydev Ghosh, Supratim Sen, Amit Saha, Samir Basak, “Electrical Power Generation Using Foot Step for Urban
Area Energy Applications”, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, 2013
IEEE
3) M. ISWARYA, G. R. P. Lakshmi, “Generation of Electricity by Using Speed Breakers”, IEEE International
Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering, IEEE 2017.
4) N. S. Metalia, D. Khandwala, “Power Generation from Dance Floor”, International Journal of Engineering
Research and Technology, Volume 06 Issue 04, pp 853-856 April-2017.
5) Rajesh Kumar Datta, Sazid Rahman, “Power Generating Slabs: Lost Energy Conversion of Human Locomotive
Force into Electrical Energy”, 8th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 20-22 December, 2014,
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6) T. R. Deshmukh. Design and analysis of a Mechanical Device to harvest energy from human footstep motion Volume 3,
Special Issue 1, ICSTSD 2016M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA: University Science, 1989.

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© 2022 JETIR August 2022, Volume 9, Issue 8 www.jetir.

A REVIEW ON FOOTSTEP POWER

Keywords – Rack and Pinion gear, Renewable source, Footstep, Electricity.

II. LITERATURE REVIEW

Fig.-2 Padel Energy Generate-model

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