With the aim of increasing the efficiency of maintenance and fuel usage in airplanes, structural health monitoring (SHM) of critical composite structures is increasingly expected and required. The optimized usage of this concept is subject of intensive work in the framework of the EU COST Action CA18203 "Optimising Design for Inspection" (ODIN). In this context, a thorough review of a broad range of energy harvesting (EH) technologies to be potentially used as power sources for the acoustic emission and guided wave propagation sensors of the considered SHM systems, as well as for the respective data elaboration and wireless communication modules, is provided in this work. EH devices based on the usage of kinetic energy, thermal gradients, solar radiation, airflow, and other viable energy sources, proposed so far in the literature, are thus described with a critical review of the respective specific power levels, of their potential placement on airplanes, as well as the consequently necessary power management architectures. The guidelines provided for the selection of the most appropriate EH and power management technologies create the preconditions to develop a new class of autonomous sensor nodes for the in-process, non-destructive SHM of airplane components.

Centre of Physics of University of Minho and Porto Campus de Gualtar 4710 057 Braga Portugal

Centre of Polymer Systems Tomas Bata University in Zlín 76001 Zlín Czech Republic

Department of Electronics Design Mid Sweden University Holmgatan 10 85170 Sundsvall Sweden

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of Cyprus 1 Panepistimiou Ave 2109 Nicosia Cyprus

Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Engineering Building Belfield University College Dublin Dublin 4 Ireland

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communications Brno University of Technology Technická 3058 10 61600 Brno Czech Republic

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing University of Zagreb Unska 3 10000 Zagreb Croatia

Faculty of Electrical Engineering University of Sarajevo Zmaja od Bosne bb 71000 Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina

Faculty of Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering and Natural Sciences University of Iceland Saemundargotu 2 102 Reykjavik Iceland

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology Technická 2896 2 61669 Brno Czech Republic

Thobecore Consulting and Research 27711 Osterholz Scharmbeck Germany

University of Rijeka Centre for Micro and Nanosciences and Technologies Radmile Matejčić 2 51000 Rijeka Croatia

University of Rijeka Faculty of Engineering Vukovarska 58 51000 Rijeka Croatia

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