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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Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller
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Peter Ponders PID - IAE,ITAE,ISE Performance indicators
Performance indicators can be used to compute closed loop pole locations. Only one gain parameter is required to move the pole locations closer to the origi...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - Controlling non-integrating single pole system. Part 1 ...
Part 1 shows why P only control shouldn't be used because the set point or target is never reached.Part 2 shows why I only control shouldn't be used because ...
See MorePeter Ponders PID. Second Order Plus Dead Time , SOPDT, Temperature Control,...
In this video I derive the equations for the controller gains and a low pass filter for a SOPDT system with a very long dead time To make the simulation mo...
See MoreDirect Synthesis for PID Controller Design
What tuning parameters should you choose for your controller? The Direct Synthesis Model is one method control engineers use today to evaluate controller par...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - Controlling an Under Damp Mass and Spring System
Demonstrates:How to calculate the PID gains. The importance of the derivative gain. How to simulate the mass and spring systemControl limitations based on s...
See MoreStandard HW Problem #1: PID and Root Locus
A walk through of a typical homework problem using the root locus method to tune a PID controller. This is the first in what may be a series of homework style problems I'll cover. This is...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - Why PID with 2nd Derivative Gain?
If you have ever tuned a hydraulic system and wondered why PID control didn't work better than PI control the answer is here. Since the 1980s people have kn...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - Integrated Time Absolute Error - 4 Pole example
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.
See MoreDirect Design Example for PID Controller
I go through an example problem of how we can use Direct Design (also called Direct Synthesis) to determine the tuning parameters for a PID controller, given...
See MorePeter Ponders PID-Fuzzy Logic vs PID
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...
See MoreSimple Examples of PID Control
In this video I continue the topic of PID control. We walk through a simple control system and visualize how each of the three paths, P, I, and D, all address specific problems that arise...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - T0P1 Part 4, Misc Topics
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...
See MoreDirect Synthesis Method Numerator Dynamics Problem
I walk through how to design a PID feedback controller when given a second order process with numerator dynamics, using the Direct Synthesis Method.
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