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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1988
Clinton W Moulds, III, Millersville, MD (US);
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A separate adaptive noise canceller receiving a reference input of a rotor speed synchronization pulse is connected in the X and Y axis positional control loops of a magnetic bearing utilized to position a rotor suspended thereby. The output of the noise canceller is self-adjusting by the inclusion of an adaptive filter implementing a least mean square algorithm to force the gain of the control loop to zero at not only the fundamental of the rotational speed, but all harmonic frequencies thereof, thereby reducing the vibration and control system power dissipation of the magnetic bearing at the rotational fundamental as well as at the rotational harmonics.