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Synchronous vibration, a common issue in active magnetic bearing (AMB) system, is mainly caused by mass imbalance of the rotor. It comes with high-power consumption and serious impact on the housing base, dramatically degrading the performance of AMB. Magnetically suspended flywheel (MSFW), which owns a flat rotor and consequently shows strong gyroscopic effects even at low operating speed, requires additional attention not only for suppressing the synchronous vibration but also for maintaining the overall stability faced with the coupled dynamics. In this work, in order to suppress the vibration torques in MSFW with significant gyroscopic effects, an improved synchronous rotating frame- (SRF-) based control method is proposed. The proposed method introduces the compensation phase for stability adjustment and aims at simultaneously suppressing the synchronous components in the coupled axes. Firstly, the vibration torque model of MSFW is established, and the baseline control strategy for suspension and gyroscopic effects restrain is derived. Then, the principle and implementation of the improved SRF-based vibration torque method are analyzed, which aims at suppressing the synchronous vibration torques through attenuating synchronous components in coil currents. Moreover, the stability of the overall closed-loop system is analyzed. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through simulation and experimental results.

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Imbalance vibration is the main factor affecting the stability of rotating machineries equipped with active magnetic bearings (AMB). Accordingly, for safe and reliable operation, ISO 14839 standard sets out guidelines for measuring and evaluating the vibration and stability. However, technical approaches to realize fulfillment of the evaluation criteria have never been studied in theory. This paper presents insights of these criteria and proposes effective methods to simultaneously implement these evaluation criteria. Based on imbalance vibration model of AMB-rotor system, the theoretical connections between these evaluation indices are revealed. In order to obtain accurate vibration model of single-input single-output (SISO) AMB-rotor system, modal analysis is carried out and equivalent mass of SISO system is figured out. Afterwards, with the analysis of sensitivity function in theory, new indices of the evaluation criteria are proposed, which helps establish requirements of controller design and rotor balance quality. Finally, through experimental verification on a test rig, the limitations on the evaluation criteria can be negligible, and the proposed methods to simultaneously implement the evaluation criteria are validated.