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Control of Flexible Rotors

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The goal of this chapter is to discuss the problems that rotor flexibility and hardware limitations introduce in the design of AMB controllers and to present some solution strategies for these problems. Rotor flexibility means that the rotor can have relatively high gain at higher frequencies and this introduces complications in designing controllers with physically realizable bandwidths. Further, non-collocation of actuators and sensors along with finite bandwidth of actuation, sensing, and control mechanisms can mean that a passivity type of approach to controller design is not feasible.

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    Maslen, E. (2009). Control of Flexible Rotors. In: Maslen, E., Schweitzer, G. (eds) Magnetic Bearings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00497-1_12

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