Table of Contents

Introduction; Electro-magnetics and Mathematical Model of Magnetic; Magnetic bearing controllers; Mechanical Dynamics; Power Electronics Circuits for Magnetic Bearings; Primitive Model and control strategy of bearingless motors; Analysis in rotational coordinates and magnetic suspension strategy for bearingless drives with 4-pole and 2-pole windings; Field Orientation, VA requirement and magnetic saturation; Cylindrical Permanent Magnet Synchronous Bearingless Motors; Inset-type Permanent Magnet Bearingless Motors; Buried Permanent Magnet Bearingless Motors; Synchronous Reluctance Bearingless Motors; Bearingless Induction Motors; Homopolar, Hybrid and Consequent-pole Bearingless Motors; Switched Reluctance Bearingless Motors; Winding Arrangement Variations; Mechanical Structure and Position Regulation; Displacement Sensors and Sensorless operation; Controllers and Power Electronics; Design Procedure and examples; Applications and test machines; Appendices; Index

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