Extended Application Of Time-Varying Observer For Rigid Rotors Unbalance Estimation During Acceleration

Unbalance is one of essential problems for modern rotating machines. In this work, an improved time-varying observer is proposed to estimate the unbalance of rigid rotor during acceleration. In order to fitting different speed acceleration laws, the unbalance forces have been included in an new designed augmented states, meanwhile the state space model of rigid rotor has been also developed. The developed state space model is transformed to a canonical transformation and a new designed time-varying observer can be obtained. The estimated unbalances can be directly obtained by using this time-varying observer. This method would be very helpful for active balancing control strategy during acceleration.