A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three-term controller) is a control loop mechanism employing feedback that is widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control. A PID controller continuously calculates an error value, e(t), as the difference between a desired setpoint (SP) and a measured process variable (PV) and applies a correction based on proportional, integral, and derivative terms (denoted P, I, and D respectively), hence the name.
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Understanding PID Control, Part 1: What is PID Control?
11 min
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Chances are you’ve interacted with something that uses a form of this control law, even if you weren’t aware of it. That’s why it is worth learning a bit more about what this control law is...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 5: Three Ways to Build a Model
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Tuning a PID controller requires that you have a representation of the system you’re trying to control. This could be the physical hardware or a mathematical representation of that hardware...
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Advances in feedforward control for measurable disturbances
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The efficient compensation of load disturbances is one of the most important tasks in any control system. Most industrial processes are affected by disturbances and only feedback is commonly...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 7: Important PID Concepts
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Now that you ’ve gotten an overview of PID tuning techniques, this video moves on to discussing two important concepts in PID control: cascaded loops and discrete systems. Both concepts are...
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Advances in Feedforward Control for Measurable Disturbances (slides)
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These slides present several contributions to improve the feedforward control approaches when inversion problem arise: the ideal compensator may not be realizable due to negative delay...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 6: Manual and Automatic Tuning Methods
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The previous video showed three different approaches to developing a mathematical model of your physical system. Now that we have this model, we can use it to tune a PID controller that will...
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Advances in feedforward control for measurable disturbances (in Spanish)
60 min
Intermediate
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The efficient compensation of load disturbances is one of the most important tasks in any control system. Most industrial processes are affected by disturbances and only feedback is commonly...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 4: A PID Tuning Guide
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It can be difficult to navigate all the resources that promise to explain the secrets of PID tuning. Some proclaim that PID tuning is an art that requires finesse and experience, while...
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Control Design Onramp with Simulink
60 min
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Learn the basics of feedback control design in Simulink®. Adjust the gains of a PID controller to change the dynamics of a physical system and get the closed-loop system behavior that you...
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Experimental evaluation of feedforward tuning rules
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This paper presents a practical comparison for some of the most relevant tuning rules for feedforward compensators that have been published in the recent years. The work is focused on the...
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Peter Ponders PID - Introduction
3 min
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The purpose of this video is to inform the viewer about what to expect. My videos go much deeper than the typical videos. They are geared for graduate st...
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Regulatory PID (Polish)
18 min
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W tym odcinku, opisze wam podstawy działania regulatorów PID.
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Feedforward tuning rules for measurable disturbances with PID control: a tut...
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Feedforward control can be considered as the most well-known control approach to deal with measurable disturbances. It started to be used almost 100 years ago, and since then it is being...
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Peter Ponders PID - Integrated Time Absolute Error - 4 Pole example
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This video shows how to calculate the coefficients for a 4 pole ITAE and how to use the 4 pole ITAE to calculate closed loop controller gains.
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Cascade Control Intro
8 min
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How can we improve the disturbance rejection of our controllers using additional, relevant measurements? Tune in to find out!
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Peter Ponders PID-Fuzzy Logic vs PID
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There are many academic and engineering papers showing how good fuzzy logic control is relative to PID control. Every FL vs PID paper I have seen compares...
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Control Bootcamp: Cruise Control Example with Proportional-Integral (PI) co...
23 min
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In this video, we show that introducing integral control reduces the steady-state tracking error to zero in the cruise control example. We also use a more sophisticated model for the...
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Designing a PID Controller Using the Ziegler-Nichols Method
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In this video we discuss how to use the Ziegler-Nichols method to choose PID controller gains. In addition to discussing the method and providing a Matlab i...
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Peter Ponders PID - T0P1 Part 4, Misc Topics
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This video covers another way to compute symbolic gains, the difference between having the P gain act on the error or just the feedback, extending bandwidt...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 2: Expanding Beyond a Simple Integral
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The first video in this series described a PID controller, and it showed how each of the three branches help control your system.That seemed simple enough and appeared to work. However, in...
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Peter Ponders PID, Natural Frequency vs Frequency of Acceleration
9 min
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This video is intended for servo hydraulic system designers and those that program hydraulic servo systems but it does show how several of the techniques sho...
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Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro
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Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro
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Peter Ponders PID - Cascade Control Part1
20 min
Beginner
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I cover whether cascade control is necessary. Why there needs to be a feed back for every loop. How to calculate gains. Bode plots and ratio of the inner t...
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Auto Tuning a Small DC Motor in Torque Mode
1 min
Beginner
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I was really testing the picture in picture feature of the Screen Flow software I use to make these videos. I knew the auto tuning would work. I kept the v...
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Peter Ponders PID - Closed Loop Zeros
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This video covers closed loop zeros, what causes zeros and the benefits and drawbacks of closed loop zeros.
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