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* and i
=
(
*
*
*
*
2 cos 2 sin
2 sin 2 cos
y
x
i
i
i
i
(8)
Eventually, the three-phase currents are determined using
2- to 3-phase transformation. As depicted from (8) and as
concluded from Fig. 3, the angular frequency of the
suspension winding current is double the mechanical
angular speed of the high speed rotor to ensure an average
radial force in the required direction.
VI. SIMULATION STUDIES
A two-dimensional magneto static finite element method
is employed for the simulation studies using JMAG-
Studio10. The transient module is used to simulate the
performance with time of the proposed gear with magnetic
levitation assuming a negligible core loss for simplicity.
A. Flux Density Distribution
Fig. 5 shows the flux density distribution of the
proposed gear for two values of the reference x- current
component of the suspension winding, namely 0A and 2A.
It is evident that for Ix equals zero, the flux distribution f
the high speed rotor has a 4-pole distribution with
symmetrical distribution around the core periphery.
However, the 2-pole levitation winding current causes a
distortion in the flux distribution resulting in a radial force
in the positive x direction. It is worthy to mention that the
back iron of the low speed rotor should be selected to avoid
core saturation with I
x
set to its maximum value.
Fig. 6 shows the variation of the radial component of
flux density in the air gaps adjacent to the high speed and
low speed rotors as well as the flux density in the
ferromagnetic pole pieces, corresponding to the high speed
and the low speed pole-pair magnets respectively. It is
evident that the two north poles in the inner airgap and in
the x-direction are affected by the suspension winding
current, as shown in Fig. 6a. The flux density under the
first pole is slightly increased while it decreases under the
second pole. However, the effect on the two south-poles in
the y-direction in neglected. The same effect on the flux
density in the ferromagnetic pole pieces is also shown in
Fig. 6b. Finally, the effect on the air gap flux of the outer
air gap is much small.
Current
feedback
PID
2/3
Current
hysteresis
controller
I
y
*
y*
Force
producing
winding
PID
x*
y
x
Eddy current
sensors
I
x
*
(
=
(
*
*
*
*
2 cos 2 sin
2 sin 2 cos
y
x
i
i
i
i
Rotary Encoder
I
u2
*
I
v2
*
I
w2
*
I
*
I
*
Fig. 4. Suspension controller block diagram
(a) (b)
Fig. 5. Flux density distribution (a) Ix = 0 and (b) Ix = 2A
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0 60 120 180 240 300 360
-1
-0.5
0
0.5
1
Peripheral angle, deg
F
l
u
x
d
e
n
s
i
t
y
(
I
n
n
e
r
a
i
r
g
a
p
)
,
T
I
x
= 0A
I
x
= 2A
(a)
0 60 120 180 240 300 360
-1
-0.5
0
0.5
1
Peripheral angle, deg
F
l
u
x
d
e
n
s
i
t
y
(
p
o
l
e
p
i
e
c
e
s
)
,
T
I
x
= 0A
I
x
= 2A
(b)
0 60 120 180 240 300 360
-1.5
-1
-0.5
0
0.5
1
1.5
Peripheral angle, deg
F
L
u
x
d
e
n
s
i
t
y
(
O
u
t
e
r
a
i
r
g
a
p
)
,
T
I
x
= 0A
I
x
= 2A
(c)
Fig. 6. Flux density and its main harmonic components in (a) air gap adjacent
to high speed rotor, (b) ferromagnetic pole pieces, and (c) air gap adjacent to
low speed rotor.
B. Torque Transmission
In this subsection, the torques on the low speed and
high speed rotors are simulated for the same values of I
x
.
Maximum load angle between the two rotors is assumed in
the two cases, which corresponds to maximum output
torque and is determined as in [8]. Fig. 7 shows the torque
of both low speed and high speed rotors for the two cases.
It is evident that the effect of suspension winding current
on torque production is neglected which ensures
decoupling between torque and force generation.
Moreover, the torque ripples slightly increase with the
increase of I
x
.
C. Radial Suspension Force Generation
Figs. 8 and 9 show the simulation results for the radial
forces exerted on both high speed and low speed rotors and
for the same two values of I
x
. Figs. 8a and 9a represent the
xy components of the radial forces with zero suspension
winding current. It is notable that the average values of
these forces equal zero. As I
x
is set to 2A, an average radial
force component exerted on the high speed rotor in the x-
axis direction is generated, as shown in Fig. 8b. For the
low speed rotor, a corresponding x- component of the
radial force and a small y- component are generated. Since,
the control and the required magnetic levitation
capabilities are concerned with high speed rotor only, then
the forces induced on the low speed rotor are not important
since low speed rotor are fixed using normal mechanical
bearing.
A relation between the I
x
component and the
corresponding generated radial force on the high speed
rotor is plotted in Fig. 10a. For the designed gear, up to
approximately 500N radial force can be produced. This
value of radial force is a design dependent factor that
depends on load and mechanical design requirements.
Changing this value would necessitate another
electromagnetic FE design iteration.
Finally, the unbalance pull force, which represents a
relation between the generated radial force and with the
radial displacement, is calculated. The unbalance pull force
is important because it is the cause of inherently unstable
characteristics for magnetic suspension systems. This
relation is found by introducing a certain radial
displacement in the rotation axis of the high speed rotor
while the winding suspension current is set to zero. FEA is
then used to calculate the average induced pull force
caused by this eccentricity. This relation is plotted in Fig.
10b. This relation is approximately linear and its slope is
called the force-displacement factor. Because this factor is
positive, generally, magnetic bearings are inherently
unstable. Therefore there is a requirement to provide
enough negative position feedback to cancel the effect of
this coefficient, which is usually done by employing a
derivative controller as shown in the controller block
diagram given in Fig. 4 [26]. Hence, the radial force
generated for the prototype machine as a function of both I
x
and radial displacement x can be approximated by (10).
( ) ( ) ( ) mm x A I N F
x x
160 169 + =
(10)
The current and displacement constants in (10) are used to
design the required PID controller shown in Fig. 4. The
PID controller design is out of scope of this paper and is
much similar to that of conventional bearingless PM
motors [25, 26].
VII. CONCLUSION
A magnetic planetary gearbox with magnetic
suspension is introduced in this paper. If the number of
pole-pairs of the high speed rotor is p
h
, then the
ferromagnetic pole-pieces in the conventional MGB are
simply equipped with a p
h
-1 pole-pairs three-phase
winding. By controlling the current in this added winding,
a controllable radial force is introduced on the high speed
shaft of the MGB which can be then used for magnetic
levitation. This configuration can be also used for vibration
suppression. A prototype 3kW gearbox with a gear ratio of
9.5 is designed and simulated using a finite element
package. The simulation for the designed gearbox reveals
that the added suspension winding does not affect the
torque generation, does not affect the gearboxs
performance in terms of induced torque ripple due to the
cogging effect, and a complete decoupling between torque
and radial force generation is obtained.
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0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Time, s
H
i
g
h
s
p
e
e
d
r
o
t
o
r
t
o
r
q
u
e
,
N
m
I
x
= 0
I
x
= 2
(a)
0 0.005 0.01 0.015 0.02
185
185.2
185.4
185.6
185.8
186
Time, s
L
o
w
s
p
e
e
d
r
o
t
o
r
t
o
r
q
u
e
,
N
m
I = 0
I = 2
(b)
Fig. 7. Transmitted mechanical torque for different suspension current
component Ix (a) high speed rotor and (b) low speed rotor.
0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01
-150
-100
-50
0
50
100
150
Time, s
F
x
y
,
N
(
H
i
g
h
s
p
e
e
d
r
o
t
o
r
)
F
x
F
y
(a)
0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01
-200
-100
0
100
200
300
400
500
Time, s
F
x
y
,
N
(
H
i
g
h
s
p
e
e
d
r
o
t
o
r
)
(b)
Fig. 8. Radial force on high speed rotor (a) Ix = 0A and (b) Ix = 2A.
0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01
-100
-50
0
50
100
Time, s
F
x
y
,
N
(
L
o
w
s
p
e
e
d
r
o
t
o
r
)
(a)
0 0.002 0.004 0.006 0.008 0.01
-400
-300
-200
-100
0
100
200
Time, s
F
x
y
,
N
(
L
o
w
s
p
e
e
d
r
o
t
o
r
)
(b)
Fig. 9. Radial force on low speed rotor (a) Ix = 0A and (b) Ix = 2A.
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
I
x
, A
R
a
d
i
a
l
F
o
r
c
e
,
N
(a)
0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5
0
20
40
60
80
Radial displacement, mm
R
a
d
i
a
l
F
o
r
c
e
,
N
(b)
Fig. 10. (a) Relation between Ix current component and radial force and
(b) relation between radial displacement and radial force generated in high
speed rotor.
VIII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This publication was made possible by NPRP grant
NPRP 4 - 941 - 2 - 356 from the Qatar National Research
Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements
made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.
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X. BIOGRAPHIES
Ayman S. Abdel-Khalik (SM12) was born in Alexandria-Egypt in July
1979. He received his B.Sc, and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Alexandria University, Egypt in 2001 and 2004 respectively. He
received his Ph.D degree in May 2009 under a dual channel program
between Alexandria University and Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK.
Dr. Abdel-khalik is currently a lecturer in Electrical Engineering
Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University. In 2009, he also
joined Spiretronic LLC as a senior research scientist. His research interests
are electrical machine design, electric machine simulation, mathematical
modeling and electric drives.
Ahmed Massoud (SM11) received the B.Sc. (first class honors) and M.Sc.
degrees from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, in
1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
from the Computing and Electrical Department, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, U.K., in 2004. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Research Fellow at
Strathclyde University, Glasgow, U.K. From 2008 to 2009, he was a
Research Fellow at Texas A&M at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. From 2009 to 2012,
he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering,
College of Engineering, Qatar University, where he is currently an Associate
Professor in the same department. His research interests include Power
Electronics, Energy Conversion, Renewable Energy and Power Quality.
Ahmed A. Elserougi received the B.Sc. , M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria
University, Egypt, in 2004, 2006 and 2011, respectively. He is currently a
lecturer at the Electrical Department, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria
University, Egypt. His research interests include Power Quality, HVDC and
FACTS, Renewable Energy and Electric power utility.
Shehab Ahmed (SM'12) was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait in July 1976. He
received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria
University, Alexandria, Egypt, in 1999; the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from
the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX in 2000 and 2007, respectively. From 2001
to 2007, he was with Schlumberger Technology Corporation working on
downhole mechatronic systems. He is currently an Assistant Professor with
Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar. His research interests include
mechatronics, solid-state power conversion, electric machines, and drives.
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