Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Control Applications, 1996., Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dearborn, MI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2975-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCA.1996.558836
