Fault tolerance of magnetic bearings with material path reluctances and fringing factors

2000 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 3939-3946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uhn Joo Na ◽  
A.B. Palazzolo
1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Maslen ◽  
C. K. Sortore ◽  
G. T. Gillies ◽  
R. D. Williams ◽  
S. J. Fedigan ◽  
...  

A fault tolerant magnetic bearing system was developed and demonstrated on a large flexible-rotor test rig. The bearing system comprises a high speed, fault tolerant digital controller, three high capacity radial magnetic bearings, one thrust bearing, conventional variable reluctance position sensors, and an array of commercial switching amplifiers. Controller fault tolerance is achieved through a very high speed voting mechanism which implements triple modular redundancy with a powered spare CPU, thereby permitting failure of up to three CPU modules without system failure. Amplifier/cabling/coil fault tolerance is achieved by using a separate power amplifier for each bearing coil and permitting amplifier reconfiguration by the controller upon detection of faults. This allows hot replacement of failed amplifiers without any system degradation and without providing any excess amplifier kVA capacity over the nominal system requirement. Implemented on a large (2440 mm in length) flexible rotor, the system shows excellent rejection of faults including the failure of three CPUs as well as failure of two adjacent amplifiers (or cabling) controlling an entire stator quadrant.


Author(s):  
M. Chaitanya ◽  
K. Durga Charan

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Author(s):  
Rugui Yao ◽  
Fanqi Gao ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Yinghui Wang
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Author(s):  
David P. Plant ◽  
Chaitanya P. Jayaraman ◽  
David A. Frommer ◽  
James A. Kirk ◽  
Davinder K. Anand

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