The stability of active balancing control using influence coefficients for a variable rotor system

High-speed rotating machines can be very sensitive to rotating mass unbalance that is a major source of harmful vibration for many types of rotating machinery. A balancing procedure is therefore needed for all high-speed rotating systems. To save the time and cost of off-line balancing, many researchers have developed on-line balancing devices and methods. In this paper, an active balancing device, which is of an electro-magnetic type, has been developed and an active balancing method using the influence coefficient method is proposed. The stability of active balancing control is studied in this paper. A stable condition for active balancing control is derived by estimating the errors of influencing coefficients. A gain scheduling control using influence coefficients of the standard model is proposed when the dynamic characteristics of a rotor system are changed. The stability of the balancing method is verified by experiments.