Driver Circuit Design for a New Eddy Current Sensor in Displacement Measurement of Active Magnetic Bearing Systems

Position sensing is one of the crucial parts of the active magnetic bearing (AMB) system. The printed circuit board (PCB) eddy current position sensor is a new type of position sensor for the AMB system, which makes a compact structure, high sensing quality, and is low cost. In this article, an improved driver circuit is proposed for this new...

Enhancing luminous flux and color rendering of laser-excited YAG:Ce³⁺ single crystal phosphor plate via surface roughening and low-temperature sintering a CaAlSiN₃:Eu²⁺ phosphor-in-borate glass

Y₃Al₅O₁₂:Ce³⁺ (YAG:Ce³⁺) single crystal phosphor (SCP) exhibits high internal quantum efficiency (IQE) and excellent thermal conductivity and stability. Such properties are promising in high-power laser-excited white lighting applications. However, YAG:Ce³⁺ SCP usually shows...

A Novel Hybrid Analytical Model of Active Magnetic Bearing Considering Rotor Eccentricity and Local Saturation Effect

To facilitate the active magnetic bearing (AMB) design and analysis, an accurate and fast model that considers both rotor eccentricity and the saturation effect is necessary. In this article, a novel hybrid analytical model (HAM) for effective calculation of the magnetic field of the AMB is proposed. Eccentricity and local saturation are...

Simplified Quadratic Optimization based IPMSM Full-Speed Range Rotor Position Estimation in Synchronous Rotating Frame

This article proposes a rotor position and speed estimation method for the interior permanent magnet synchronous machine (IPMSM) in the full-speed range. The proposed method is implemented in the synchronous rotating frame. Based on the voltage equation of the IPMSM in the synchronous rotating frame, a single-variable optimization problem is...

Performance comparison of analytical models for rotor eccentricity: A case study of active magnetic bearing

This paper applies two different analytical methods, i.e., the perturbation method and superposition method, to calculate the magnetic flux density distribution and the magnetic force of the active magnetic bearing (AMB) with the rotor eccentricity. These two methods are thoroughly analyzed, compared and validated by the finite element model ...

Sliding mode control with neural network for active magnetic bearing system

A novel controller design procedure is proposed for a 5-degree-of-freedom (DOF) active magnetic bearing (AMB) system, based on sliding mode control (SMC) and neural network (NN). The SMC is used to achieve high robustness and fast response while the NN can compensate unmodeled uncertainty and external disturbance by on-line tuning algorithm. The...

Electrochemical reduction of CO₂ on compositionally variant Au-Pt bimetallic thin films

The electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ on Au-Pt bimetallic catalysts with different compositions was evaluated, offering a platform for uncovering the correlation between the catalytic activity and the surface composition of bimetallic electrocatalysts. The Au-Pt alloy films were synthesized by a magnetron sputtering co-deposition...