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Imbalance compensation of active magnetic bearing systems using model predictive control based on linear parameter-varying models

Research Authors
Abdelrahman Morsi, Hossam S Abbas, Sabah M Ahmed, Abdelfatah M Mohamed
Research Department
Research Date
Research Year
2022
Research Journal
Journal of Vibration and Control
Research Publisher
SAGE Publications
Research Vol
Volume 29, Issue 15-16
Research Website
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10775463221099074
Research Abstract

Active magnetic bearing (AMB) is a suspension system to levitate a rotating shaft freely without any physical contact which allows extremely fast rotation speeds. One big control challenge of the AMB systems, which appears during high rotation speeds, is the non-uniform distribution of the rotor weight about its rotating axis. This is usually referred to as the rotor imbalance problem which produces sinusoidal disturbance forces. These disturbances lead to undesirable vibrations and large deviations of the rotor shaft from its desired trajectories. We adopt in this work model predictive control (MPC) to reduce the effect of these sinusoidal disturbances and to achieve a stable levitation of the rotor shaft while tracking a reference trajectory. Owing to the MPC capability of handling constraints in an optimal manner, physical input constraints can be committed. Moreover, state