Control of a flexible rotor active magnetic bearing test rig: a characteristic model based all-coefficient adaptive control approach  

作　　者：Long DI Zongli LIN 

机构地区：[1]Charles L. Brown Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia,P.O. Box 400743, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4743, U.S.A.

出　　处：《Control Theory and Technology》2014年第1期1-12,共12页控制理论与技术（英文版）

摘　　要：Active magnetic bearings （AMBs） have found a wide range of applications in high-speed rotating machinery industry. The instability and nonlinearity of AMBs make controller designs difficult, and when AMBs are coupled with a flexible rotor, the resulting complex dynamics make the problems of stabilization and disturbance rejection, which are critical for a stable and smooth operation of the rotor AMB system, even more difficult. Proportional-integral-derivative （PID） control dominates the current AMB applications in the field. Even though PID controllers are easy to implement, there are critical performance limitations associated with them that prevent the more advanced applications of AMBs, which usually require stronger robustness and performance offered by modern control methods such as H-infinity control and if-synthesis. However, these advanced control designs rely heavily on the relatively accurate plant models and uncertainty characterizations, which are sometimes difficult to obtain. In this paper, we explore and report on the use of the characteristic model based all-coefficient adaptive control method to stabilize a flexible rotor AMB test rig. In spite of the simple structure of such a characteristic model based all-coefficient adaptive controller, both simulation and experimental results show its strong performance.Active magnetic bearings （AMBs） have found a wide range of applications in high-speed rotating machinery industry. The instability and nonlinearity of AMBs make controller designs difficult, and when AMBs are coupled with a flexible rotor, the resulting complex dynamics make the problems of stabilization and disturbance rejection, which are critical for a stable and smooth operation of the rotor AMB system, even more difficult. Proportional-integral-derivative （PID） control dominates the current AMB applications in the field. Even though PID controllers are easy to implement, there are critical performance limitations associated with them that prevent the more advanced applications of AMBs, which usually require stronger robustness and performance offered by modern control methods such as H-infinity control and if-synthesis. However, these advanced control designs rely heavily on the relatively accurate plant models and uncertainty characterizations, which are sometimes difficult to obtain. In this paper, we explore and report on the use of the characteristic model based all-coefficient adaptive control method to stabilize a flexible rotor AMB test rig. In spite of the simple structure of such a characteristic model based all-coefficient adaptive controller, both simulation and experimental results show its strong performance.

关 键 词：Active magnetic bearings Adaptive control Characteristic modeling Flexible rotor ROBUSTNESS 

分 类 号：TP273.2[自动化与计算机技术—检测技术与自动化装置] TH162[自动化与计算机技术—控制科学与工程]