A simple experiment illustrating the principles of electrodynamic magnetic suspension is described and test results are given. A disk-shaped coil made of insulated copper magnet wire and energized with 60-Hz ac line voltage is levitated in a stable equilibrium position above a wide aluminum plate. The mechanisms generating levitation force are identified by the use of Maxwell’s equations. A lum...

This thesis describes the design procedure, analysis, and control of a single actuator magnetic levitation system. First the details of the system design and construction are presented, followed by an analysis of the relevant sub-systems and controller theory. Experimental levitation data is collected and compared to the theory. Utilizing a lead-lag controller, the maglev system is made stable ...

Levitation drift in the high-Tc superconducting levitation systems is directly related to the safe operation of the systems. In these levitation systems, the gap between a superconductor and a permanent magnet may decrease, increase, or keep unvarying with time. Based on the numerical simulations of the magnetic force-gap hysteresis relations of two different physical processes in field cooling...

This paper aims at development of non linear dynamic model for Magnetic Levitation System and proposed linear and nonlinear state space controllers. The linear controller was designed by linearizing the model around equilibrium point, while nonlinear controller was based on feedback linearization where a nonlinear state-space transformation is used to linearize the system exactly. Relative degr...

One maintenance task that still exist with conventional motors, are bearing lubrication and renewal. Bearingless motors are replaced with conventional motor that uses a magnetic levitation force to suspend a rotor without any mechanical contact. In bearingless motors, additional windings are wound together with motor windings in stator slots. In this paper, a bearingless permanent magnet-type s...

Electromagnetic levitated and guided system is commonly used in the field of people transport, tool machines frictionless bearing and conveyor system. In the case of low speed people transport vehicles, the electromagnetic levitation offers the advantage of a very salient motion and of a reduced maintenance of the rail.In this work FEM based analysis and design of different structure of rail (g...

In this paper, H disturbance attenuation control and sliding mode disturbance estimation and compensation control of a magnetic levitation system are studied. A magnetic levitation apparatus is established, and its model is measured. Then the system model is feedback linearized. A H controller is then designed. For comparison, a sliding mode controller and a PID controller also were designed. S...

Magnetic levitation experiments have been performed on arabidopsis plants equipped with a stress responsive reporter gene system Seedlings were levitated in a magnetic eld gradient B T and BrB T m for hours and control specimens were located at the center of the magnet B T and in a low eld B mT region The reporter gene qualitatively indicates that the levitated and the magnetic eld control spec...

The present report summarizes the work conducted during the internship on Feedforward Control of the Magnetic Levitation Setup. Different feedforward strategies, specifically tailored for this setup, are developed and reviewed. These feedforward methods explicitly take the intrinsic position-dependent behavior of the magnetic levitation setup into account. Additionally, closed-loop stability of...

Stable levitation of one magnet by another with no energy input is usually prohibited by Earnshaw’s Theorem. However, the introduction of diamagnetic material at special locations can stabilize such levitation. A magnet can even be stably suspended between (diamagnetic) fingertips. A very simple, surprisingly stable room temperature magnet levitation device is described that works without super...