Magnetic bearing experiment for integrated teaching and research laboratories

Author

Paden, Brad ; Morse, Nancy ; Smith, Roy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. & Environ. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

15-18 Sep 1996

Firstpage

421

Lastpage

425

Abstract

Magnetic bearings represent an important technology which often places considerable demands on control system designers. These unstable plants are multivariable, nonlinear, and have lightly damped modes associated with suspended rotors. In this paper we describe how these challenges can be brought into teaching and research laboratories with a self-contained, yet flexible, magnetic bearing experiment. Moreover, we discuss how many experiments can be performed with this system which range in complexity from undergraduate SISO identification and control experiments, to graduate level control design, and research experiments in multivariable, adaptive, and nonlinear control

Keywords

adaptive control; control engineering education; electromagnets; identification; laboratories; machine bearings; magnetic levitation; multivariable control systems; nonlinear control systems; rotors; student experiments; SISO identification; adaptive control; control design; graduate level; magnetic bearing; multivariable systems; nonlinear systems; research laboratories; suspended rotors; teaching; undergraduate level; unstable plants; Coils; Control systems; Education; Electromagnets; Laboratories; Magnetic levitation; Magnetic sensors; Nonlinear control systems; Open loop systems; Stators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2975-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1996.558836

Filename

558836