• DocumentCode
    2391303
  • Title

    Stable levitation control of magnetically suspended vehicles with structural flexibility

  • Author

    Alberts, Thomas E. ; Oleszczuk, Grzegorz ; Hanasoge, Aravind M.

  • Author_Institution
    Aerosp. Eng., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    11-13 June 2008
  • Firstpage
    4035
  • Lastpage
    4040
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a simple analysis evaluating the stability threshold for magnetically levitated flexible structures using dissipative collocated controllers. It is shown that with such a control structure, the controller that stabilizes a rigid levitated mass can also stabilize a flexible structure with the same overall mass and electrodynamics. This principle has been experimentally demonstrated on flexible single and multi- magnet levitation systems.
  • Keywords
    electrodynamics; flexible structures; magnetic levitation; stability; vehicles; dissipative collocated controllers; electrodynamics; flexible structure; magnetically suspended vehicles; multi-magnet levitation systems; stable levitation control; Coils; Equations; Flexible structures; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic levitation; Stability analysis; System testing; Transportation; Vehicles; Weight control;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    American Control Conference, 2008
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • ISSN
    0743-1619
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2078-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0743-1619
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACC.2008.4587124
  • Filename
    4587124