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?
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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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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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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
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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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Introduction: PID Controller Design
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In this tutorial we will introduce a simple, yet versatile, feedback compensator structure: the Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller. The PID controller is widely employed...
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Advances in feedforward control for measurable disturbances (in Spanish)
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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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TCLab PID Control
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Implement a PID controller on the Temperature Control Lab hardware to drive the temperature from room temperature to 60 degrees C. This resource lets you attempt the design yourself first...
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Improving the Beginner's PID - Introduction
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In conjunction with the release of the new Arduino PID Library Brett has released this series of posts that explain his PID code. He start's with what he call's “The Beginner’s PID.” He...
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PID Controller Implementation in Software
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How to implement a PID controller in software using C, discussing theory and practical considerations. Demonstration of PID controller code using a custom flight simulator.
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Peter Ponders PID - Introduction
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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)
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W tym odcinku, opisze wam podstawy działania regulatorów PID.
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Peter Ponders PID - Why PID with 2nd Derivative Gain?
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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...
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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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Direct Synthesis Method Numerator Dynamics Problem
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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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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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Understanding PID Controller
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This blog post begins by walking through the basics and the theoretical part of the PID controllers. The controller is then tested, verified, and analyzed using MATLAB.
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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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Cascade Control Intro
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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, Natural Frequency vs Frequency of Acceleration
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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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Standard HW Problem #1: PID and Root Locus
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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...
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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 - Cascade Control Part1
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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
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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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