Publications by Leopoldo Rossini

Novel Generalised Notch Filter for Harmonic Vibration Suppression in Magnetic Bearing Systems

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego, Douglas Martins Araujo

Magnetic bearings represent an important alternative to conventional ball bearings for applications that require very low noise and vibrations. The absence of contact and friction between rotor and stator parts, combined with the use of active vibration co ...

2021

Efficiency Optimisation of Slotless Magnetic Bearing Machines

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego, Douglas Martins Araujo

Efficiency is one of the key performance indexes in the design of electric motors. When considering fully active magnetic bearing machines, this aspect gain further relevance due to the necessity of actively controlling all the remaining degrees of freedom ...

2021

Force and Torque Model of Ironless Passive Magnetic Bearing Structures

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego, Douglas Martins Araujo

This article presents the development and validation of a three-dimensional force and torque semi-analytical model for ironless permanent magnet structures. This method relies on the definition of the magnetic flux density generated by permanent magnets in ...

IEEE2019

On-line micro-vibration measurement method for Lorentz-type magnetic-bearing space actuators

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego, Douglas Martins Araujo

A novel, cost-effective, real-time and on-line method for measuring the generated micro-vibrations and iden- tifying the forces in a magnetic bearing space actuator is proposed. For its validation, an actively-controlled electrodynamic (Lorentz-type) magne ...

2019

Magnetic Bearing Reaction Wheel Micro-vibration Signature Prediction

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego, Douglas Martins Araujo

This article presents an analytical micro-vibration model for magnetic bearing reaction wheels (MBRWs) based on a rotordynamics model combined with the active control loop. This model is validated employing a fullyactive Lorentz-type MBRW demonstrator and ...

2019

Micro-vibration identification in active magnetic bearing systems

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Douglas Martins Araujo

2019

Force Analysis of a Slotless Lorentz-Type Active Magnetic Bearing Actuator

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego, Douglas Martins Araujo

This article presents the analysis of the three-dimensional forces applied by a slotless Lorentz-type fully-active magnetic bearing actuator. An analytical model is presented for defining the forces applied by every radial and axial bearing of the actuator ...

2018

Linear Parameter-Varying Kalman Filter for angular velocity estimation of a reaction sphere actuator for satellite attitude control

Alireza Karimi, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego

This paper presents a novel angular velocity estimation strategy of a Reaction Sphere (RS) for satellite attitude control based on a Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) Kalman Filter. The reaction sphere is a permanent magnet synchronous spherical actuator whos ...

IEEE2017

Closed-loop magnetic bearing and angular velocity control of a reaction sphere actuator

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

This article presents the first closed-loop magnetic bearing and angular velocity experimental results of a reaction sphere actuator for satellite attitude control. The proposed reaction sphere is a permanent magnet spherical actuator whose rotor is suppor ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Rotor Design Optimization for a Reaction Sphere Actuator

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

This paper presents the rotor design optimization for a reaction sphere (RS) actuator. The RS is a permanent-magnet synchronous spherical actuator whose rotor is magnetically levitated and can be accelerated about any desired axis. The RS is composed of an ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Back-EMF and Rotor Angular Velocity Estimation for a Reaction Sphere Actuator

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

2014

Electromagnetic Modeling and Control Aspects of a Reaction Sphere for Satellite Attitude Control

Leopoldo Rossini

EPFL2014

Force and Torque Analytical Models of a Reaction Sphere Actuator Based on Spherical Harmonic Rotation and Decomposition

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

This paper presents an analytical model for the force and torque developed by a reaction sphere actuator for satellite attitude control. The reaction sphere is an innovative momentum exchange device consisting of a magnetic bearings spherical rotor that ca ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Hybrid FEM-analytical force and torque models of a reaction sphere actuator

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

This paper presents a hybrid FEM-analytical model for the magnetic flux density, the force and torque of a Reaction Sphere (RS) actuator for satellite attitude control. The RS is a permanent magnet synchronous spherical actuator whose rotor is magnetically ...

IEEE Computer Society2013

Analytical and experimental investigation on the force and torque of a reaction sphere for satellite attitude control

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

2011

An open-loop control strategy of a reaction sphere for satellite attitude control

Yves Perriard, Leopoldo Rossini

2011

Curiosity Cloning: Neural Analysis of Scientific Knowledge

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ashkan Yazdani, Leopoldo Rossini

Event-related potentials (ERPs) are indicators of brain activity related to cognitive processes. They can be detected from EEG signals and thus constitute an attractive non-invasive option to study cognitive information processing. The P300 wave is probabl ...

2009