A Model Reference Adaptive Controller With Feedforward Decoupling for Active Magnetic Bearing Rotor System

Active magnetic bearing (AMB) rotor system is widely applied in the industry for its remarkable advantages. However, it is a typical open-loop unstable mechatronics system suffering from nonlinear and couple characteristic. In this paper, the feedforward decoupling method is used to deal with the couple relationship of different axes. And the model reference adaptive control (MRAC) method is applied to improve the control performance and robustness and overcome the uncertainties. This control method makes the system output reach to the reference model by the designed adaptive law. Simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.