Fault Tolerant Homopolar Magnetic Bearings with Flux Invariant Control

  • Na Uhn-Joo (Division of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Kyungnam University)
  • Published : 2006.05.01

Abstract

The theory for a novel fault-tolerant 4-active-pole homopolar magnetic bearing is developed. If any one coil of the four coils in the bearing actuator fail, the remaining three coil currents change via an optimal distribution matrix such that the same opposing pole, C-core type, control fluxes as those of the un-failed bearing are produced. The hompolar magnetic bearing thus provides unaltered magnetic forces without any loss of the bearing load capacity even if any one coil suddenly fails. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the novel fault-tolerant, 4-active pole homopolar magnetic bearings.

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