This paper deals with the experimental control of a rotating active magnetic bearing (AMB) system using PID-type fuzzy controllers (PIDFCs) with parameter adaptive methods. There are three kinds of parameter adaptive methods, including fuzzy tuner, function tuner, and relative rate observer, have been proposed in literatures for tuning the coefficients of PIDFCs. However, only a simulation comp...

In this paper, application of Sliding Mode Control (SMC) technique for an Active Magnetic Bearing (AMB) system with varying rotor speed is considered. The gyroscopic effect and mass imbalance inherited in the system is proportional to rotor speed in which this nonlinearity effect causes high system instability as the rotor speed increases. Transformation of the AMB dynamic model into regular sy...

In this paper, a few chattering-free Sliding Mode Controllers (SMC) are proposed to stabilize an Active Magnetic Bearing (AMB) system with gyroscopic effect that is proportional to the rotor speed. The improved switching terms of the controller inherited from the saturation-type function and boundary layer control technique is shown to be able to achieve bounded and asymptotic stability, respec...

Active magnetic bearings can be implemented with frequency band-reject filtering that decreases the bearing stiffness and damping at a small bandwidth around a chosen frequency. The control scheme has been used for reducing a rotor dynamic force, such as an imbalance force, transmitted to the bearing stator. This study reveals that the scheme creates additional system vibration modes at the sam...

Flywheel systems based on fibre composites can have power densities which are significantly better than for electrochemical batteries. Hence, they have considerable potential for use as peak power buffers in drive-trains for electric and hybrid vehicles. As the rotational speed is increased, however, bearing friction power loss and iron losses in the motor/generator become more significant. Thu...

Passive rotors are often limited in rotational speed due to bearing constraints, stability and excessive vibration levels. To address the issue, Active Magnetic Bearings (AMBs) levitating rotor with a magnetic field can be used. They offer clearance variable stiffness damping support, which help mitigate greatly issue. However, they also at large because of high frequency control force required...