Multi-frequency rotor vibration suppressing through self-optimizing control of electromagnetic force

In this paper, the attention is confined to the suppression of multi-frequency rotor vibration. A method to control rotor’s multi-frequency periodic vibration in rotor-bearings system is proposed which uses active magnetic exciter (AME) to produce active control force to suppress rotor’s vibration and to reach a self-optimizing control of the rotor vibration. The control strategies include an arithmetic to optimize the amplitudes and phases of the control current using on-line self-optimizing algorithms in AME and applied multiple frequency-matched control force that AME generates to reduce the measured amplitudes of rotor. The model of rotor-bearings system with AME is established firstly. An active vibration control scheme for controlling transverse vibration of the rotor due to multi-frequency excitation is designed. The whole circle search algorithm and fast optimizing search algorithm about the amplitude and phase of control current are proposed. Finally, the experiments for controlling multi-frequency vibration of the rotor are carried out on the rotor-bearings test rig. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method can effectively suppress the rotor vibration for multi-frequency components through self-optimizing control of electromagnetic force.