scholarly journals Inductive Displacement Sensors with a Notch Filter for an Active Magnetic Bearing System

Sensors ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 12640-12657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seng-Chi Chen ◽  
Dinh-Kha Le ◽  
Van-Sum Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Notch Filter ◽  
Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Displacement Sensors ◽  
Bearing System

Adaptive hybrid control of unbalanced vibrations of a rotor/active magnetic bearing system with coupling misalignment using low cost instrumentation

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (15) ◽  
pp. 2151-2174
Author(s):  
Rajiv Kumar Vashisht ◽  
Qingjin Peng
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Control ◽  
Frequency Estimation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Active Noise Control ◽  
Notch Filter ◽  
Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Flexible Rotor ◽  
Adaptive Notch Filter ◽  
Bearing System

An adaptive hybrid controller is proposed for reducing the unbalanced vibration response of a flexible rotor/active magnetic bearing system. It is observed that conventional adaptive feedforward controller (AFFC) normally used in the active noise control is very sensitive in performance for changes in rotor spin frequencies. Although frequency updating is a part of its architecture, a small practical variation in the rotor spin frequency can reduce its effectiveness drastically. A smart combination of adaptive notch filter and Goertzel filter is proposed for the frequency estimation. During changes of the rotor spin frequency, fundamental harmonics of the flexible rotor are excited. By using hybrid controllers that combine feedback control and AFFC, the amplitude of these fundamental harmonics is reduced significantly. By applying the multi-harmonic hybrid control, the multiple harmonics generated due to coupling misalignment are compensated efficiently. Fourier transform of the control signal is further used to detect the presence of the coupling misalignment.

scholarly journals Development and Experimental Validation of Auxiliary Rolling Bearing Models for Active Magnetic Bearings (AMBs) Applications

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Tangredi ◽  
Enrico Meli ◽  
Andrea Rindi ◽  
Alessandro Ridolfi ◽  
Pierluca D’Adamio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Load Capacity ◽  
Critical Phenomenon ◽  
Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Design Tool ◽  
Magnetic Bearings ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearings ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Auxiliary Bearing ◽  
Bearing System

Nowadays, the search for increasing performances in turbomachinery applications has led to a growing utilization of active magnetic bearings (AMBs), which can bring a series of advantages thanks to their features: AMBs allow the machine components to reach higher peripheral speeds; in fact there are no wear and lubrication problems as the contact between bearing surfaces is absent. Furthermore, AMBs characteristic parameters can be controlled via software, optimizing machine dynamics performances. However, active magnetic bearings present some peculiarities, as they have lower load capacity than the most commonly used rolling and hydrodynamic bearings, and they need an energy source; for these reasons, in case of AMBs overload or breakdown, an auxiliary bearing system is required to support the rotor during such landing events. During the turbomachine design process, it is fundamental to appropriately choose the auxiliary bearing type and characteristics, because such components have to resist to the rotor impact; so, a supporting design tool based on accurate and efficient models of auxiliary bearings is very useful for the design integration of the Active Magnetic Bearing System into the machine. This paper presents an innovative model to accurately describe the mechanical behavior of a complete rotor-dynamic system composed of a rotor equipped with two auxiliary rolling bearings. The model, developed and experimentally validated in collaboration with Baker Hughes a GE company (providing the test case and the experimental data), is able to reproduce the key physical phenomena experimentally observed; in particular, the most critical phenomenon noted during repeated experimental combined landing tests is the rotor forward whirl, which occurs in case of high friction conditions and greatly influences the whole system behavior. In order to carefully study some special phenomena like rotor coast down on landing bearings (which requires long period of time to evolve and involves many bodies and degrees of freedom) or other particular events like impacts (which occur in a short period of time), a compromise between accuracy of the results and numerical efficiency has been pursued. Some of the elements of the proposed model have been previously introduced in literature; however the present work proposes some new features of interest. For example, the lateral and the axial models have been properly coupled in order to correctly reproduce the effects observed during the experimental tests and a very important system element, the landing bearing compliant suspension, has been properly modelled to more accurately describe its elastic and damping effects on the system. Furthermore, the model is also useful to characterize the frequencies related to the rotor forward whirl motion.

scholarly journals Research on Automatic Balance Control of Active Magnetic Bearing-Rigid Rotor System

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Shuaishuai Ming ◽  
Siyao Zhao ◽  
Jiyuan Han ◽  
Yaxin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Vibration Control ◽  
Rotational Speed ◽  
Notch Filter ◽  
Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Rotor System ◽  
Vibration Response ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Rigid Rotor ◽  
Phase Compensation ◽  
Synchronous Control

In this paper, in order to solve the problem of unbalance vibration of rigid rotor system supported by the active magnetic bearing (AMB), automatic balancing method is applied to suppress the unbalance vibration of the rotor system. Firstly, considering the dynamic and static imbalance of the rotor, the detailed dynamic equations of the AMB-rigid rotor system are established according to Newton’s second law. Then, in order to rotate the rotor around the inertia axis, the notch filter with phase compensation is used to eliminate the synchronous control current. Finally, the variable-step fourth-order Runge–Kutta iteration method is used to solve the unbalanced vibration response of the rotor system in MATLAB simulation. The effects of the rotational speed and phase compensation angle on the unbalanced vibration control are analysed in detail. It is found that the synchronous control currents would increase rapidly with the increase of rotational speed if the unbalance vibration cannot be controlled. When the notch filter with phase shift is used to balance the rotor system automatically, the control current is reduced significantly. It avoids the saturation of the power amplifier and reduces the vibration response of the rotor system. The rotor system can be stabilized over the entire operating speed range by adjusting the compensation phase of the notch filter. The method in the paper is easy to implement, and the research result can provide theoretical support for the unbalance vibration control of AMB-rotor systems.

Integral Sliding Mode Control Approach for 3-Pole Active Magnetic Bearing System

2016 ◽  
Vol 829 ◽  
pp. 128-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van Van Huynh ◽  
Minh Hoang Quang Tran
Keyword(s):  
Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Sliding Surface ◽  
Integral Sliding Mode Control ◽  
Integral Sliding Mode ◽  
Mode Control ◽  
Integral Sliding Surface ◽  
Bearing System

In this paper, a new integral sliding mode control scheme is designed for the 3-pole active magnetic bearing system. First, a new integral sliding surface is designed such that the 3-pole active magnetic bearing system in the sliding mode is asymptotically stable under certain conditions. Then, an adaptive controller is designed to solve the unknown upper bound of matched uncertainty and guarantee the reachability of the integral sliding surface. Finally, the performance of the proposed integral sliding mode controller is applied to 3-pole active magnetic bearing system to demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method.

A Field Balancing Technique Based on Virtual Trial-Weights Method for a Magnetically Levitated Flexible Rotor

2014 ◽  
Vol 136 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingguang Wang ◽  
Jiancheng Fang ◽  
Shiqiang Zheng
Keyword(s):  
High Efficiency ◽  
Notch Filter ◽  
Magnetic Bearing ◽  
Active Magnetic Bearing ◽  
New Method ◽  
Mode Shapes ◽  
Flexible Rotor ◽  
Magnetically Levitated ◽  
Balancing Efficiency ◽  
The Impact

For a magnetically levitated flexible rotor (MLFR), the amount of residual imbalance not only generates undesired vibrations, but also results in excessive bending, which may cause it hit to the auxiliary bearings. Thus, balancing below the critical speed is essential for the MLFR to prevent the impact. This paper proposes a balancing method of high precision and high efficiency, basing on virtual trial-weights. First, to reduce the computed error of rotor's mode shapes, a synchronous notch filter is inserted into the active magnetic bearing (AMB) controller, achieving a free support status. Then, AMBs provide the rotor with the synchronous electromagnetic forces (SEFs) to simulate the trial-weights. The SEFs with the initial angles varying from 0 deg to 360 deg in the rotational frame system result in continuous changes in the MLFR's deflection. Last, correction masses are calculated according to the changes. Compared to the trail-weights method, the new method needs not test-runs, which improves the balancing efficiency. Compared to the no trail-weights method, the new method does not require a precise model of the rotor-bearing system, which is difficult to acquire in the real system. Experiment results show that the novel method can reduce the residual imbalance effectively and accurately.

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