M. Komori et N. Akinaga, A prototype of flywheel energy storage system suppressed by hybrid magnetic bearings with H-infinity controller, IEEE APPL S, 11(1), 2001, pp. 1733-1736
This paper discusses a prototype of miniature flywheel energy storage syste
m. The system consists of a rotor with a flywheel disk and a pair of hybrid
magnetic bearings (HMBs). The HMB is composed of both superconducting magn
etic bearings (SMBs) and active magnetic bearings (AMBs). H-infinity contro
l method and zero bias method are applied to the AMB. In this paper, the de
sign and dynamics of the flywheel energy storage system are discussed.