High Performance Data Acquisition, Identification, and Monitoring for Active Magnetic Bearings

Future Active Magnetic Bearing systems (AMB) must feature easier on-site tuning, and foundation, and enhanced monitoring and identification abilities. To get closer to these goals we developed fast parallel link from the digitally controlled AMB to Matlab, which is used on a host computer for data processing, identification and controller layout. This enables the magnetic bearing to take its frequency responses without using any additional measurement equipment. These measurements can be used for AMB identification.