<![CDATA[This study analyses the electrical characteristics and predicts the power output of a piezoelectric smart carpet system through a comparative analysis of series and parallel circuit configurations using the Random Forest Regression (RFR) algorithm. The system was designed using 16 piezoelectric ceramic elements per block integrated into a 100 cm carpet structure. Experimental data were collected from five subjects with body masses ranging from 54–98 kg through walking and running activities, yielding 100 observational samples. Results show the series configuration produced an average power output of 1649.3 mW, outperforming the parallel configuration by 104.8%, which yielded only 805.1 mW, with peak voltage reaching 80 V during running. The RFR model optimized using GridSearchCV with 5-fold cross-validation achieved a coefficient of determination (R²) of 88.25%, a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 145.06 mW, and a Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) of 179.15 mW. Feature importance analysis revealed that circuit configuration (47.59%) and step frequency (47.18%) are the dominant predictive factors, while body mass contributed only 5.22% due to mechanical saturation in the carpet structure. This study confirms that RFR is effective as a predictive model for optimizing biomechanical energy harvesting systems in public infrastructure.]]>
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