Control system for controlling a magnetic suspension system

A magnetic suspension system comprising:

• an object to be magnetically levitated,
• magnetic actuators configured to magnetically levitate the object, and
• a control system for controlling electric currents supplied to coils of the magnetic actuators,
• wherein the control system comprises:
• sensors configured to produce position signals indicative of a position of the object, and
• a controller configured to supply, in accordance with the position signals, the electric currents to the coils of the magnetic actuators to magnetically levitate the object,
• wherein the control system comprises a computing system configured to maintain and update a computational model of the magnetic suspension system based on identification runs where identification run signals are supplied to the coils of the magnetic suspension system and responses to the identification run signals are detected from at least one of following:
• the sensors and the coils, wherein the computing system is configured to compare quantities related to the computational model to quantities related to the magnetic suspension system to reveal differences of the magnetic suspension system with respect to the computational model.