Adaptive MIMO pole placement control for commissioning of a rotor system with active magnetic bearings

Active magnetic bearing (AMB) supported rotor systems require advanced control strategies to meet the increased performance requirements of more and more demanding applications. To meet the particular requirements for the performance under changing dynamics, an adaptive control structure is a task worth pursuing. This paper studies adaptive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) pole placement applied to the control commissioning of an AMB-supported rotor system. The control tuning approach is based on a rigid body model, and the parameter estimation is carried out with a recursive extended least squares (RELS) based algorithm for the MIMO system. The proposed approach is studied by simulations and validated with both a 2-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) and a 4-DOF AMB system.