Improved linear/nonlinear active disturbance rejection switching control for bearingless induction motor

ABSTRACT

To achieve high-performance operation control for bearingless induction motor (BIM) systems, an improved linear/nonlinear active disturbance rejection switching control strategy is proposed (SADRC). The key innovation lies in the automatic switching between linear and nonlinear control modes based on system stability and disturbance magnitude. First of all, based on the principle of air-gap magnetic field directional control of the BIM, the first-order and second-order ADRC are designed for the rotating and suspending parts of the BIM, respectively. In addition, the nonlinear active disturbance rejection control (NLADRC) has the shortcoming of tracking performance degradation when the disturbance amplitude is large. Then, an active disturbance rejection controller that can automatically switch between linear and nonlinear based on the stability of the system and the magnitude of the disturbance is designed with the introduction of linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC). The trigonometric function is introduced to improve the fal function to optimise the abrupt change at the linear interval and the high-frequency chattering phenomenon at the origin. The unknown parameters are rectified using the bandwidth method and the particle swarm algorithm, respectively, to ensure the robustness and adaptiveness of the control strategy. Finally, both simulation and experimental results show that the proposed SADRC strategy not only combines the advantages of linear and nonlinear self-anti-disturbance control but also improves the BIM rotor suspension performance and anti-disturbance capability.

KEYWORDS:

• Bearingless induction motor
• active disturbance rejection control
• switching control
• parameter tuning

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).