scholarly journals Robust Control of Rotordynamic Instability in Rotating Machinery Supported by Active Magnetic Bearings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Mushi
Author(s):  
G Schweitzer

The application of magnetic bearings for rotating machinery has become state of the art and spans from research prototypes to industrial series. Users are aware that beyond functionality the aspects of safety and related areas become increasingly important. This survey addresses the issues of safety and reliability, being a part of dependability. It gives a review on existing approaches, and it shows numerous examples of problems and solutions. Review topics are safety-oriented design methods, software tools, redundancy, robust control, and retainer bearings. Finally, the concept of smart machines is introduced as a way for further improving safety and dependability of machinery with active magnetic bearings.


2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 566-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. L. Fittro ◽  
C. R. Knospe

Many important industrial problems in the control of rotating machinery with active magnetic bearings concern the minimization of the rotor vibration response to poorly characterized disturbances at a single or several shaft locations, these typically not corresponding to those of a sensor or actuator. Herein, we examine experimental results of a multivariable controller obtained via μ synthesis with a laboratory test rig. These indicate that a significant improvement in performance can be obtained with a multivariable μ controller over that achieved with an optimal decentralized PD controller.


Author(s):  
Roger L. Fittro ◽  
Carl R. Knospe

Many important industrial problems in the control of rotating machinery with active magnetic bearings concern the minimization of the rotor vibration response to poorly characterized disturbances at a single or several shaft locations, these typically not corresponding to those of a sensor or actuator. Herein, we examine experimental results of a multivariable controller obtained via μ synthesis with a laboratory test rig. These indicate that a significant improvement in performance can be obtained with a multivariable μ controller over that achieved with an optimal decentralized PD controller.


Author(s):  
Yichen Yao ◽  
Yixin Su ◽  
Tianye Yu ◽  
Gexue Ren ◽  
Suyuan Yu

Abstract In modern industries, high-speed machinery occupies a fundamental place. However, rotating machinery will inevitably produce a variety of structural noise and vibration. Generally, vibration isolation means can be divided into active vibration isolation and passive vibration isolation, among which the most representative are active magnetic bearings (AMBs) and vibration isolators, respectively. The combination of active magnetic bearings and vibration isolators is widely used in rotating machinery because of its excellent effect in vibration and noise reduction. This paper concentrates on the analysis of the vibration transmission mechanism of the active magnetic bearings coupled with the vibration isolators. A 30 kW prototype pump is taken as an example to help describe the research method. The model of the pump is first established. The stationary pump components and the rotor are respectively modeled through the finite element method and converted to substructure modal expression after low-order modal extraction. The bearing force is simplified to spring-dampers with equivalent stiffness and equivalent damping relating to the exciting frequency. The vibration isolators are simplified as three-dimensional spring-dampers. Based on the model, this paper then investigates the matching relation of the AMBs and the vibration isolators and proposes a dynamic vibration isolation design method for the rotor-AMBs-flexible support system. On the basis of the frequency-domain response of the original design, this design method gives the frequency-domain curves of the desired stiffness and damping of the suitable active vibration isolation, which can be used to guide the controller design of the AMBs and isolators selection. According to the design, we have done laboratory experiments on the prototype pump. The results show that the design method based on matching relation has good performance in vibration isolation.


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