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 - Introduction
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...
See MorePID Controller Implementation in Software
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.
See MoreUnderstanding PID Controller
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.
See MoreDesigning a PID Controller Using the Ziegler-Nichols Method
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...
See MoreDirect Synthesis for PID Design Intro
Direct Synthesis for PID Design Intro
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 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 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.
See MoreCascade Control Intro
How can we improve the disturbance rejection of our controllers using additional, relevant measurements? Tune in to find out!
See MoreUnderstanding PID Control, Part 3: Expanding Beyond a Simple Derivative
This video describes how to make an ideal PID controller more robust when controlling real systems that don’t behave like ideal linear models. Noise is generated by sensors and is present in...
See MoreUnderstanding PID Control, Part 2: Expanding Beyond a Simple Integral
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...
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 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 MorePID Control - A brief introduction
In this video, I introduce the topic of PID control. This is a short introduction design to prepare you for the next few lectures where I will go through several examples of PID control....
See MoreControl Bootcamp: Cruise Control Example with Proportional-Integral (PI) co...
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...
See MoreAn interactive feedforward tool for FeedForward Control
This interactive software tool is focused on basic and advanced concepts of feedforward control.
See MoreAuto Tuning a Small DC Motor in Torque Mode
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...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - Controlling a non-integrating single pole system. Part 3...
Part 3 uses PI control which is the only practical means of control a non-integrating single pole system.http://deltamotion.comhttp://forum.deltamotion.com
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 - 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 - 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 MorePeter Ponders PID - Cascade Control Part1
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...
See MorePeter Ponders PID - Cascade Control Part2
The inner loop pole locations and gains are calculated first so the inner loop pole locations are determined by the user. The outer loop poles are still pla...
See MorePeter 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...
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