Levitation Stability and Hopf Bifurcation of EMS Maglev Trains

This paper analyzed the mechanical characteristics of single electromagnet system and elastic track beam of EMS maglev train and established a five-dimensional dynamics model of single electromagnet-track beam coupled system with classical PD control strategy adopted for its levitation system. Then, based on the Hurwitz criterion and the high-dimensional Hopf bifurcation theory, the stability of the coupled system is analyzed; the existence of the Hopf bifurcation is discussed and the bifurcation direction and the stability of the periodic solution are determined with levitation control feedback coefficient as the bifurcation parameter; and numerical simulation is conducted to verify the validity of the theoretical analysis results. The results show that the Hurwitz algebra criterion can directly determine the eigenvalues and symbols of the dynamics system to facilitate the analysis on the stability of the system and the Hopf bifurcation without the necessity of calculating the specific eigenvalues; supercritical Hopf bifurcation will occur under the given parameters, that is, when , the real-time system is asymptotically stable, yet Hopf bifurcation occurs as increases gradually beyond , with the stability of the system lost and a stable limit cycle branched.