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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2012
Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp., Longueuil, CA;
Peter Ficklscherer, Schoefweg, DE;
PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP., Longueuil, CA;
Abstract
A speed control system for an engine comprising at least one rotary load is provided. The speed control system may include a rotor speed controller configured to regulate speed in the rotary load based on a sensed rotor speed, exclusive of resonant mode speed oscillations, in closed loop feedback with a commanded rotor speed. To provide active damping of resonant mode speed oscillations, a resonance disturbance rejection controller may be configured to compensate a speed control signal by observing a component of the sensed rotor speed that is due to resonant mode oscillations. Based on the observed resonance component, the resonance disturbance rejection controller may compute an adjustment value for the speed control signal. In the particular case of gas turbine engines, the resonance disturbance rejection controller may effect active damping by compensation of a fuel flow request for a gas generator.