Rotor Active Magnetic Bearings System Control via a Tuned Nonlinear Saturation Oscillator

Abstract

The proposed work focuses on improving the performance of the traditional nonlinear saturation controller (NSC) algorithm. In this work, a tuning mechanism can be implemented by providing the NSC control unit with the measured speed Ω of the rotor from a shaft encoder device in order to introduce a tuned NSC (TNSC). In other words, we are going to tune the NSC's natural frequency ω c at one half of Ω such that Ω =2ω c. This TNSC is adopted to reduce the vibratory amplitudes of a 16-pole constant-stiffness rotor-Active magnetic bearings AMBs) system for a wide range of speeds and eccentricities. The whole controlled system is studied mathematically to seek its approximate solutions via the multiple scales technique. Different relations between the rotor's amplitudes and its parameters are plotted so as to verify the proposed tuning mechanism and its crucial role in improving the NSC's performance.