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Adaptive Influence Coefficient Control of Single-Plane Active Balancing Systems For Rotating Machinery
Adaptive Influence Coefficient Control of Single-Plane Active Balancing Systems For Rotating Machinery
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Fig. 2 Vibration error signal demodulated to obtain the shaft
Fig. 1 Schematic of active balancing system for high-speed rotation-synchronous frequency phasor
machining spindles
rion is shown for a simple nonadaptive influence coefficient based where x is the generalized displacement of each degree of freedom
control law that includes a robustness-enhancing control ‘‘gain’’ and 关M兴, 关C兴, 关G兴, 关K兴 and 关 C r 兴 are respectively the mass, damp-
parameter. A recursive on-line system identification method is ing, gyroscopic, stiffness and rotating frame damping matrices.
introduced that uses exponential weighted averaging to mitigate The forcing term in the differential equation is made up of the real
the effects of measurement noise and system nonlinearities. Ex- and imaginary 共or ‘‘direct’’ and ‘‘quadrature’’兲 components of U,
perimental results are shown for systems with nonlinear and time- the discretized unbalance distribution 共consisting of ‘‘static’’ and
varying dynamics. ‘‘moment’’ unbalances兲 at the appropriate phase angles ␣. As the
rotational speed tends to zero, the left portion of this matrix
equation should be recognizable as the typical nonrotating discrete
linear dynamic system.
Components of Active Balancing System Once the elements of Eq. 共1兲 are determined 共through experi-
The goal of the active balancing system is to minimize steady mental or analytical means兲, the dynamic response of a given
state synchronous vibration while a machine continues operating degree of freedom to unbalance at a given location can be solved
regardless of unknown and varying residual unbalance distribu- to obtain the steady-state unbalance response over the operating
tions. An active balancing system is made up of: 共1兲 an active speed range. The steady state solution can be found numerically
balancing mass actuation device that mounts permanently to the 关12兴 or analytically by assuming a sinusoid response, substituting
rotating shaft; 共2兲 sensors which measure vibration and balance the assumed solution into the differential equations, and solving
correction state; and 共3兲 the controller as shown in Fig. 1. the resulting algebraic equation 关13兴. The steady-state response of
For many rotating machines it is possible to roughly predict the a certain degree of freedom to unbalance at given locations can be
axial location of the unbalance disturbance. Unbalance in high- represented by ‘‘Influence Coefficients.’’ These are simply the
speed machining spindles, for example, is often concentrated at complex-valued transfer functions, evaluated at the appropriate
the tool/toolholder location at the nose of the spindle. By placing rotational speeds, between unbalance and dynamic response.
an active balancing device close to that location of the major At a steady operating speed, the synchronous vibration ‘‘error’’
source of system forcing, single-plane active balancing is likely to output at a given discrete time step k is assumed to be a linear
be successful at controlling UIV. function of the effect of the active balance input and the cumu-
Since active balancing can only affect the shaft synchronous lated effect of all rotor-synchronous disturbances as indicated in
frequency vibration, the raw vibration signal must be filtered to Eq. 共2兲.
obtain the synchronous frequency component. To obtain this
e k ⫽c 共 兲 w k ⫹d (2)
complex-valued Fourier coefficient, vibration data is sampled and
then convolved with the shaft synchronous rotation phasor as il- where w k is the complex balance correction 共units of unbalance兲
lustrated in Fig. 2. at time step k, c( ) is the complex-valued influence coefficient
The synchronous reference phasor must be generated using a 共units of vibration per unit unbalance兲 of balance correction on
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error sensor output at speed , and d is the disturbance 共vibration
units兲 contributing to error measured at the sensor. This relation-
ship forms the basis for the well-known influence coefficient off-
line balancing method 关14兴.
The active balancing controller should command the balance
weight correction w k⫹1 to achieve the goal of the error signal at
control iteration k⫹1 being exactly zero. Assuming that the dis-
turbance does not change as fast as the control update, the neces-
sary control law can be derived. The single-plane control formu-
lation, similar to that used by magnetic bearing researchers 关15兴 is
given by:
ek
w k⫹1 ⫽w k ⫺ (3)
c共 兲
Note that although the balance correction vector w k and vibration
error phasor e k can be measured, the influence coefficient c( )
must be estimated. This could be accomplished through precise
modeling or experimental tests of the system. The estimated in-
fluence coefficient, designated as ĉ, is then used in place of the
actual influence coefficient c( ) in the control law of Eq. 共3兲. Fig. 3 Single-plane active balancing control stable for all val-
ues of „ ␣ c Õ ĉ … falling within the unit circle in the right half com-
plex plane „ R Ë1…
Use of ‘‘Gain’’ Parameter to Improve Nonadaptive
Control Stability
The stability of this nonadaptive control law depends on the
accuracy of the influence coefficient estimate. Researchers have
冏
R⫽ 1⫺ ␣
c
ĉ
冏⬍1 (12)
derived the stability criterion for a similar nonadaptive control for This criterion can be represented graphically in the complex
magnetic bearing systems. To further enhance stability margin, plane as shown in Fig. 3.
however, a gain parameter ␣ (0⬍ ␣ ⭐1) is proposed here to be From Fig. 3, one can see how the control gain parameter ␣ can
added to the control law of Eq. 共3兲 such that enhance robustness. For the case in which the actual influence
ek coefficient does not change during control convergence, it can be
w k⫹1 ⫽w k ⫺ ␣ (4) shown, based on Eq. 共12兲, that the nonadaptive control law of Eq.
ĉ 共4兲 is stable if and only if
This gain parameter ␣ can improve control robustness to errors
兩 ĉ 兩
in the influence coefficient estimate ĉ. We can, without loss of ␣ ⬍2 cos共 c ⫺ ĉ 兲 (13)
generality, consider the disturbance d to be represented by the 兩c兩
influence of a hypothetical unbalance u 共which may include any where 兩c兩 and 兩 ĉ 兩 are the magnitudes of the actual and the esti-
synchronous forcing, not just unbalance兲 acting through some cu- mated influence coefficients and c and ĉ are their respective
mulative influence coefficient c u such that phase angles. Since ␣ is defined to be greater than zero, if the
d⫽cc u u (5) phase angle of the influence coefficient estimate lies between ⫾90
deg 共noninclusive兲 of the actual influence coefficient phase angle
Equation 共2兲 can then be written 共i.e., the real part of the quotient c/ĉ is greater than zero兲, then
e k ⫽c 共 w k ⫹c u u 兲 (6) there exists a gain ␣ for which the control is stable.
The convergence of the controlled error from the initial state e 0
We can define a cumulative forcing term v k where to zero is governed by Eq. 共11兲. It is clear that although small
v k ⫽w k ⫹c u u (7) values for ␣ enhance stability robustness, they also slow down
control convergence rate. It is also clear that an accurate estimate
Substituting Eq. 共7兲 into Eq. 共6兲 gives of the influence coefficient reduces the necessity to be conserva-
tive in choosing the gain ␣ for stability robustness reasons. There-
e k ⫽c v k (8)
fore, an on-line estimation strategy can be employed to ensure
Again assuming the disturbance u and influence coefficients c and accurate influence coefficient estimates regardless of changing or
c u do not change over one control iteration, we can use Eq. 共8兲 nonlinear dynamics.
and rearrange Eq. 共7兲 for both control iterations k and k⫹1 in Eq.
共4兲 giving the relationship: On-Line Estimation of Influence Coefficient
c If the balance correction state is measurable, plant input and
v k⫹1 ⫽ v k ⫺ ␣ v (9) output information is available with which to estimate the influ-
ĉ k
ence coefficient during each control iteration. The proposed ap-
冉
v k⫹1 ⫽ 1⫺ ␣
c
v
ĉ k冊 (10)
proach for accomplishing the estimation is a recursive exponen-
tially weighted averaging method. This method is based on using
the current and most recent previous measurements to calculate
The recursive forcing of Eq. 共10兲, combined with Eq. 共8兲 yields the instantaneous value of the influence coefficient using the fol-
the controlled vibration error history lowing formula:
冉
e k⫹1 ⫽ 1⫺ ␣
c
ĉ 冊 k⫹1
e0 (11) c new ⫽
e k ⫺e k⫺1
w k ⫺w k⫺1
(14)
It then follows that the single-plane active balancing control is Previous researchers have utilized nonrecursive and recursive
asymptotically stable, for a constant influence coefficient c, if and least squares estimation 关16兴 using data from every control itera-
only if: tion in past history. This has the effect of estimating the average
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influence coefficient over time without responding well to time-
varying dynamics. Other work used the initially measured input
and output along with the current measurements 关9兴, compared to
the most recent and current measurements used for this work. In
the former estimation technique, if the plant dynamics or unbal-
ance disturbance change, or are nonlinear, this method may lead
to control instability or, at the very least, slower control conver-
gence. Furthermore, no provision is made to mitigate the effects
of measurement noise.
Assuming sufficient excitation 共i.e., sufficient change in the
control input w k from iteration to iteration兲, the computed value
c new will be nonsingular. 共A supervisory method will be discussed
later that ‘‘turns off’’ estimation in certain situations where insuf-
ficient excitation persists.兲 However, this estimation formula is
also directly subject to the noise present in measuring e and w.
Therefore, it may not be desirable to throw out all previously
estimated information of the influence coefficient. To mitigate the
effect of measurement noise, an exponentially weighted recursive
average can be used to update the influence coefficient. The up-
dated influence coefficient used in computing the next control step
is then estimated as
ĉ k ⫽ 共 1⫺  兲 ĉ k⫺1 ⫹  冉 e k ⫺e k⫺1
w k ⫺w k⫺1 冊 (15) Fig. 4 Influence coefficient estimation performance for vari-
ous values of the  ‘‘Forgetting Factor’’
where 0⭐  ⭐1. The  parameter is a ‘‘forgetting factor’’ that
governs the extent of control system adaptivity. When  ⫽0, no
weight is given to the newly calculated influence coefficient and
the control system is the same as the nonadaptive system dis-
cussed previously. When  is close to one, the adaptive controller
w k⫹1 ⫽w k ⫺ ␣ 冉冊
ek
ĉ k
(18)
places more weight on the most recently estimated influence co- where ĉ k is given in Eq. 共15兲. The block diagram form of the
efficient and tends to ignore previous estimates. controller is shown in Fig. 5.
The forgetting factor  can be chosen to provide an optimum When the magnitude of the change in balance correction vector
trade-off between estimation sensitivity to measurement noise, 兩 w k ⫺w k⫺1 兩 approaches zero, the estimation of ĉ k becomes singu-
and speed of estimation convergence. For the stationary case after lar. This could lead to ‘‘bursts’’ of spurious estimates and the
the estimation has substantially converged, the statistical variance balance weights being commanded to non-ideal positions. Though
of the exponentially weighted influence coefficient estimate can the estimation and control would likely re-converge after a brief
be defined as a function of the variance of c new . Assuming that period, such an event is undesirable and could lead temporarily to
the new measurement is independent of the past estimate, the harmful vibration levels. Further complexity could be added to the
variance of the estimate is given by: control law of Eq. 共18兲 to vary the control and estimation param-
冉 冊
eters ␣ and  in real-time so that the estimation Eq. 共15兲 did not
 become singular. For this work, however, a rule-based supervi-
Var 关 ĉ k 兴 ⫽ Var 关 c new 兴 . (16)
2⫺  sory strategy was chosen. On-line variation of adaptive param-
eters will be left for future study.
Thus, the estimation variance can be reduced by selecting a low
The supervisory strategy used for these experiments was to
value for . For values of  close to unity, the estimation variance
‘‘turn off’’ the estimation whenever the change in control vectors
approaches the variance of the calculated parameter c new . This
兩 w k ⫺w k⫺1 兩 fell below some predetermined level. This level was
relationship is shown in Fig. 4a.
chosen based on the balance correction resolution and measure-
The estimation will ‘‘track’’ the actual influence coefficient c as
ment noise of the balance correction vector. The control was de-
it varies over time. The disadvantage of choosing a low forgetting
factor  is that estimation convergence rate is reduced. For the
case of a step change in the actual influence coefficient to a new
constant value, the influence estimation convergence is governed
by the equation
E 关 ĉ k 兴 ⫽c⫹ 共 ĉ 0 ⫺c 兲共 1⫺  兲 k (17)
where c is the actual influence coefficient, ĉ 0 is the initial esti-
mate, and E 关 ĉ k 兴 is the expected value of the influence coefficient
estimate after k̂ iterations. The number of estimation iterations
required for 95 percent convergence of the estimate for various 
values is plotted in Fig. 4b. Higher  results in faster estimation
convergence. For systems that have slowly varying dynamics and
high measurement noise, a low  value is best. For highly non-
linear or rapidly varying dynamic systems, a larger  value would
be necessary for fast control convergence.
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Fig. 7 Experimental setup of single plane active balancing
Fig. 6 Flow chart of experimental single-plane active balanc- system on test spindle 2 mounted in a high-speed machining
ing control system center
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Fig. 8 Measured spindle housing vibration during active bal-
ancing of nonlinear system Fig. 10 Measured spindle housing vibration during single-
plane adaptive active balancing with inaccurate initial influence
coefficient estimate
can only control synchronous vibration. However, for nonlinear
systems, large unbalances can excite nonlinear effects that appear
at higher harmonic frequencies. Therefore, by controlling syn- ing system was tested for the worst case scenario by providing the
chronous vibration, these broadband vibrations can also be signifi- control system with an erroneous initial estimate of the system
cantly diminished. This previously unanticipated result is shown influence coefficient. The results of the test with the spindle op-
in Fig. 9, a time-frequency graph of vibration during a single- erating at about 10,000 rpm are shown in Fig. 10.
plane active balancing test. It is evident that the erroneous initial influence coefficient esti-
Note that the rotor-synchronous component is the dominant fre- mate caused the controller to move the balance weights in the
quency component of vibration. Other integer and half-integer ‘‘wrong’’ direction, causing a temporary increase in vibration.
vibration harmonics also appear prior to active balancing. After each control iteration, however, new input-output data was
After active balancing was completed the synchronous vibra- utilized in a weighted average to re-estimate the system unbalance
tion component was dramatically reduced. Furthermore, the response vector. After four control iterations and less than three
higher harmonics were also eliminated due to the reduction of the seconds, the active balancing system controlled vibration to below
synchronous component and the subsequent nonlinear effects. the preset low limit. The controller then had acquired, or
Tests of Control with Time-Varying Dynamics. Another ‘‘learned,’’ the spindle dynamic response at that operating speed
important test of the adaptive control system is its robustness to during the exercising of control. Thus, the active balancing system
changes in plant dynamics. As described previously, rotating ma- could be used as a probe to measure and track the inherent dy-
chine dynamics can vary over time due to changing operating namic response of a system. Such data may contain useful diag-
environment, degradation or damage of components, or various nostic information about the dynamic bearing stiffness and effec-
other reasons. This tendency for rotordynamics to change appre- tive rotating inertia, etc.
ciably highlights the need for a robust adaptive control strategy. If balancing were again required for the same operating speed
In the case of high-speed machining spindles, different tool and machine configuration the control system would be able to
inertia and varying machine configuration can result in significant reject new disturbances much more quickly. Results of a test of
variation of the system dynamics. The most typical scenario for the active balancing system after such adaptive ‘‘learning’’ are
time-varying dynamics on a machine tool would be an abrupt step shown in Fig. 11.
change in both machine dynamics and unbalance disturbance after The test results shown in Fig. 11 indicate how quickly the
a tool change. Thus, the ‘‘time-varying’’ characteristic is that the single-plane control system can respond when an accurate esti-
dynamics are unknown and the influence coefficient estimate mate of the influence coefficient vector is available.
could be inaccurate at the beginning of the next active balancing Results of Control at Multiple Rotational Speeds. A test of
cycle. The performance of the single-plane adaptive active balanc- the active balancing system on test spindle 2 resulted in signifi-
cantly decreased vibration at all speeds. An unbalance of 70 g-mm
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ence coefficient method, includes a control gain that tunes the
‘‘aggressiveness’’ of control to enhance stability. A stability cri-
terion was shown for this gain parameter as a function of the
actual and estimated influence coefficients. The control system
utilizes the input and output information available after each
change in active balance correction to compute an estimate of the
influence coefficient. A recursive exponential weighting method is
used to reduce estimation sensitivity to measurement noise while
still responding to time-varying and nonlinear dynamics. Such an
adaptive control system allows quick and robust control response
without requiring any a priori modeling of plant dynamics. The
on-line system identification integral with the control provides the
useful side benefit of allowing the monitoring of machine dy-
namic response characteristics.
Tests of a supervisory implementation of the adaptive control
scheme on high-speed spindle systems showed the system was
Fig. 12 Measured spindle housing vibration before and after successful at controlling synchronous vibration over a wide range
adaptive active balancing at various spindle speeds „70 g-mm of rotational speeds. The control method performed well even in
unbalance at tool tip… the presence of nonlinear and time-varying dynamics. Applica-
tions with well-known unbalance locations such as high-speed
machining spindles are good targets for such a single-plane active
was inserted at the tip of a 210 mm long, 50.8 mm diameter tool. balancing system. For machines with more complex unbalance
The spindle was then run at constant speeds from 5,000 rpm up to distributions, a multiple-plane optimal extension of the control
its maximum operating speed of 15,000 rpm and active balancing law is in order. Further investigations are also warranted into the
performed. The synchronous vibration was recorded before and control system’s capability of responding to rapidly changing ro-
after active balancing at each speed and is shown in Fig. 12. tational speeds and dynamics.
The spindle manufacture considered 2 mm/sec to be acceptable
but less than 1 mm/sec of spindle housing vibration desirable to Acknowledgments
protect spindle bearing life. The housing vibration due to a given
unbalance will vary significantly depending on spindle speed and The authors would like to acknowledge the work of Zhenhu
mounting configuration. Therefore the vibration specifications are Zhuang to implement the real-time control and estimation soft-
not necessarily valid as absolute spindle damage indicators. They ware and hardware used in the tests. The comments and direction
are simply intended to provide end-users with a general and easily of Professor Jianjun Shi were helpful. Dr. Daniel Apley contrib-
measurable rule-of-thumb. During this experiment, the adaptive uted to the stability analysis outlined in the paper. The authors
active balancing system reduced synchronous vibration by 79–99 also appreciate the effort and useful comments of the reviewers.
percent. The control system was able to maintain synchronous Special thanks are due to Mr. Hans Luedi of E. Fischer A. G., Mr.
vibration at or below 0.5 mm/sec even when initial vibration well Dan Beamon of Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, and Mr.
exceeded ‘‘acceptable’’ levels. Background vibration ‘‘noise’’ Gary Haas of Cincinnati Milacron for the use of their equipment
and the positioning resolution of the balance mass actuators de- or facilities. The support of the management and staff at Bala-
termined the minimum achievable controlled vibration level. Dyne Corp. was key to the success of this research.
Spindle housing vibration was used as control feedback in these
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