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Advanced ControlLecture three

Mohammad Ali Fanaei

Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Reference: C. C. Yu, “Autotuning of PID Controllers”, 2nd ed., Springer, 2006

Off-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

1. Ziegler-Nichols(1942): Recommended for 0.2< D/<2 ( )

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About 250 tuning rules are exist for PI and PID Controllers

What is the suitable tuning rule?

It really depends on your process (Type, Order, Parameters,

Nonlinearity, Uncertainty, etc)

Off-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

2. Tyreus-Luyben(1992): Recommended for time-constant

dominant processes

3. Ciancone-Marlin(1992): Recommended for dead-time

dominant processes

Off-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

4. PID tuning based on IMC (Rivera et al., 1986)

On-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

Ziegler-Nichols Test (1942)

1. Set the controller gain Kc at a low value, perhaps 0.2.

2. Put the controller in the automatic mode.

3. Make a small change in the set point or load variable and observe the

response. If the gain is low, then the response will be sluggish.

4. Increase the gain by a factor of two and make another set point or

load change.

5. Repeat step 4 until the loop becomes oscillatory and continuous

cycling is observed. The gain at which this occurs is the ultimate gain

Ku , and the period of oscillation is the ultimate period Pu.

On-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

Relay Feedback Test (Astrom &Hagglund, 1984)

On-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

Relay Feedback Test

1. Bring the system to steady state.

2. Make a small (e.g. 5%) increase in the manipulated input. The magnitude of change depends on the process sensitivities and allowable deviations in the controlled output. Typical values are between 3 and 10%.

3. As soon as the output crosses the SP, the manipulated input is switched to the opposite position (e.g. –5% change from the original value).

4. Repeat step 2 until sustained oscillation is observed .

5. Read off ultimate period Pu from the cycling and compute Ku from the following Equation: Ku= 4h/(a)

On-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

Advantages of Relay Feedback Test

1. It identifies process information around the important frequency, the ultimate frequency.

2. It is a closed-loop test; therefore, the process will not drift away from the nominal operating point.

3. The amplitude of oscillation is under control (by adjusting h ).

4. For processes with a long time constant, it is a more time-efficient method than conventional step or pulse testing. The experimental time is roughly equal to two to four times the ultimate period.

5. If the normalized dead time D / is less than 0.28, the ultimate period is smaller than the process time constant. Therefore the relay feedback test is more time efficient than the step test.

On-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

Advantages of Relay Feedback Test

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On-Line Tuning of PID Controllers

Process model identification from aRelay Feedback Test

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Recommended Tuning Formulas

The following formulas are recommended by Luyben and Yu for tuning The PI controllers:

Example 3: Using relay Feedback

In this example for the system that described in example 2 a relay feedback test is used for on-line tuning of a PI

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