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Center for Rotating Machinery

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Active Magnetic Bearings and Control Areas of Research

RoMaDyC Areas of Research Dynamics and C ontrol
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Active magnetic bearings (AMBs) are a typical mechatronics product. The hardware is composed of mechanical areas of research in RoMaDyC.
components combined with electronic elements such as sensors and power amplifiers, and an information
processing part, usually in the form of a microprocessor. In addition, an increasingly important part is software,
which specifies coordination of bearing forces to sensed rotor motion, and consequently dictating the dynamic
properties of the complete system. The inherent ability for sensing, information processing and actuation give
the magnetic bearing the potential to become a key element in smart and intelligent machines.
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Examples of Active Magnetic Bearings in RoMaDyC
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The Center has conducted AMB studies in the areas including energy minimization and active vibration control.
RoMaDyC has also been successful in applying AMBs as actuators in specialized applications such as
structural health monitoring and smart machining.

Structural Health
Monitoring

Advanced
Rotordynamic Analysis

AMB Test Rig C onfigured to Study Energy C onservation in Presence of the Gyroscopic Effect.

A well formulated performance assessment tool for evaluating controllers for AMB systems (and practically any
other essentially linear system with primarily steady state performance objectives) can be efficiently constructed
in the form of a -analysis problem. The Center RoMaDyC has conducted study of -synthesized control of AMB
machining spindles for improved cutting performance.
 Structure of the full model for controller synthesis and assessment.

C omparison of two -controllers; one is optimized for machining.

1. Sawicki, J.T., Maslen, E.H., and Bischof, K.R., "Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Machining
Spindle with Active Magnetic Bearings," Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, 21(6), pp.
847-850, 2007.

2. Barbaraci, G., Pesch, A.H. and Sawicki, J.T., "Experimental Investigations of Minimum Power
C onsumption Optimal C ontrol for Variable Speed AMB Rotor," ASME Paper IMEC E2010-40044,
ASME International Mechanical Engineering C ongress and Exposition, Vancouver, C anada,
November 12-18, 2010.

3. Sawicki, J.T. and Maslen, E.H., "Toward Automated AMB C ontroller Tuning: Progress in
Identification and Synthesis," The Eleventh International Symposium on Magnetic Bearings (ISMB-
11), Nara, Japan, August 26-29, 2008.

4. Maslen, E.H. and Sawicki, J.T., "-Synthesis for Magnetic Bearings: Why Use Such a C omplicated
Tool?," ASME International Mechanical Engineering C ongress and Exposition, Seattle, Washington,
USA, November 12-15, 2007.

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