Comparison of Methods to Reduce Vibrations in Superconducting Maglev Vehicles by Primary Suspension Control

SUZUKI Erimitsu, SHIRASAKI Jun, WATANABE Ken, HOSHINO Hironori, NAGAI Masao

doi:10.1299/jmtl.1.3

The vehicles of the superconducting magnetically levitated transport (Maglev) system travel at high speeds of over 500 km/h. These vehicles are composed of lightweight car bodies and relatively heavy bogies which are mounted with devices such as superconducting magnets (SCMs) and an onboard refrigerating system. The lightweight structure of the car bodies result in vibrations at relatively high frequencies, and are believed to be influencing the ride comfort. Furthermore, the passive electromagnetic damping is very small in the primary suspension between the SCMs installed on the bogies and the ground coils installed on the guideway. Therefore, it is effective to add active electromagnetic damping to this primary suspension. A linear generator device that is incorporated into an existing bogie of the Maglev system generates onboard power and can also generate additional electromagnetic forces that can be used in the control of the primary suspension. This device has been demonstrated in full-scale vehicle experiments to effectively apply electromagnetic damping directly to the primary suspension, and reduce vibrations of relatively higher frequencies that are otherwise difficult to reduce by controlling only the secondary suspension. Computations using a Maglev vehicle model examine the effectiveness of reducing vibrations by applying this primary suspension control.

Comparison of Methods to Reduce Vibrations in Superconducting Maglev Vehicles by Primary Suspension Control

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