Robust Control of Magnetic Bearing in the Inertially Stabilized Platform for Aerial Remote Sensing

Abstract

Comparing with the normal mechanical inertial stabilized platform (ISP), the novel ISP with magnetic bearing to suspend the yaw gimballing owns the ability of isolating the vibration and disturbance of external gimballing. However, on the one hand, complex structure of the magnetically suspended gimballing introduces the parametric uncertainties into modelling of magnetic suspension force, and the disturbance between the magnetic fields brings the un-modeled force into dynamics of magnetically suspended gimballing. On the other hand, the external disturbances such as wind drag affect the stability of magnetically suspended gimballing. Therefore, to weaken the negative influence on stability and improve the robustness of system, the H∞ robust controllers for translation and tilting of gimballing are designed. The experimental results indicate that the robust controller of magnetically suspended gimballing owns the excellent robustness when the load of magnetically suspended gimballing changes.