Nonlinear Control Approach of an Electromagnetic Bearing System

This paper proposes a two-electromagnet double degrees of freedom active magnetic bearing (AMB) model. Considering the nonlinearity between the electromagnetic force and the air gap, the authors put forward a nonlinear control approach based on feedback linearization which decouples and linearizes the original system. For the linearized system, pole placement strategy is used to achieve expected steady and dynamic performances. Simulation results show that this approach can successfully implement the decoupling and linearization, and is effective of different initial values.