PID CONTROLLER DESIGN APPROACHES – THEORY, TUNING AND APPLICATION TO FRONTIER AREAS Edited by Marialena Vagia PID Controller Design Approaches – Theory, Tuning and Application to Frontier Areas Edited by Marialena Vagia Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Irena Voric Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published March, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] PID Controller Design Approaches – Theory, Tuning and Application to Frontier Areas, Edited by Marialena Vagia p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0405-6 Contents Preface IX Part 1 Tuning Methods for 3 Terms Controllers –Classical Approach 1 Chapter 1 Wavelet PID and Wavenet PID: Theory and Applications 3 José Alberto Cruz Tolentino, Alejandro Jarillo Silva, Luis Enrique Ramos Velasco and Omar Arturo Domínguez Ramírez Chapter 2 Tuning Three-Term Controllers for Integrating Processes with both Inverse Response and Dead Time 29 K.G.Arvanitis, N.K.Bekiaris-Liberis, G.D.Pasgianos and A.Pantelous Chapter 3 Design of a Golf Putting Pneumatic Mechanism Integer vs Fractional Order PID 53 Micael S. Couceiro, Carlos M. Figueiredo, Gonçalo Dias, Sara M. Machado and Nuno M. F. Ferreira Chapter 4 Design and Development of PID Controller-Based Active Suspension System for Automobiles 71 Senthilkumar Mouleeswaran Part 2 Intelligent Control and Genetic Algorithms Approach 99 Chapter 5 Fuzzy PID Supervision for an Automotive Application: Design and Implementation 101 R. Sehab and B. Barbedette Chapter 6 Conceptual Model Development for a Knowledge Base of PID Controllers Tuning in Closed Loop 121 José Luis Calvo-Rolle, Héctor Quintián-Pardo, Antonio Couce Casanova and Héctor Alaiz-Moreton VI Contents Chapter 7 Stabilizing PID Controllers for a Class of Time Delay Systems 141 Karim Saadaoui, Sami Elmadssia and Mohamed Benrejeb Chapter 8 Practical Control Method for Two-Mass Rotary Point-To-Point Positioning Systems 159 Fitri Yakub, Rini Akmeliawati and Aminudin Abu Part 3 Robust PID Controller Design 185 Chapter 9 Performance Robustness Criterion of PID Controllers 187 Donghai Li, Mingda Li, Feng Xu, Min Zhang, Weijie Wang and Jing Wang Chapter 10 Robust LMI-Based PID Controller Architecture for a Micro Cantilever Beam 211 Marialena Vagia and Anthony Tzes Part 4 Disturbance Rejection for PID Controller Design 227 Chapter 11 The New Design Strategy on PID Controllers 229 Wei Wang Chapter 12 IMC Filter Design for PID Controller Tuning of Time Delayed Processes 253 M. Shamsuzzoha and Moonyong Lee Preface First placed on the market in 1939, the PID controller is one of the most dominating forms of feedback used until the recent years. Although PID controllers are used for a wide range of technology applications, many important issues regarding their tuning and performance remain open. Numerous everyday applications are incorporating PID control structures into their design, such as process control, automotive applications, magnetic and optic memories, flight control, instrumentation, microsystems technology, pneumatic mechanisms, dc motors, etc. The augmented complexity of modern applications requires that the controllers implemented would incorporate into their design important characteristics of the systems. These characteristics include but are not limited to: model uncertainties, system’s nonlinearities, time delays, disturbance rejection requirements and performance criteria. The scope of this book is to propose different PID control design strategies for numerous modern technology applications. The book is divided into four sections, in order to categorize the different applications and control methodologies described in each one of them. The first section is entitled “Tuning Methods for 3 Terms Controllers - Classical Approach “. The first chapter of this section describes the idea of a multiresolution PID controller using the wavelet theory for the decomposition of the tracking error signal. Innovative methods of tuning three-term controllers for integrating processes incorporating both time-delay and a non-minimum phase zero are presented in the second chapter. The next chapter describes a novel test bed for evaluation of a golf putting pneumatic mechanism and the last chapter deals with the development of a controller for the active control of a suspension system, which improves the inherent tradeoff among ride comfort, suspension travel and road- holding ability. The second section is called “Intelligent Control and Genetic Algorithms Approach”. In this section, fuzzy controllers and controllers tuned with the methods of genetic algorithms are presented. In the first place, a fuzzy PID supervision scheme associated to a PID control is designed, and an automotive application is chosen for illustration and validation of the proposed approach. In addition, a conceptual model for a knowledge-based system for the achievement of the best parameters based in Closed- Loop design of PID controllers is presented. In the sequel, a nominal characteristic X Preface trajectory following controller is proposed as a practical approach for point to point positioning systems. At the end of this section another strategy is proposed, where the ranges of proportional, derivative and integral gains are not set arbitrary but they are set within the stabilizing regions determined, so that we are searching among the stabilizing values of the PID controller. Third section “Robust PID Controller Design” deals with robustness analysis for PID controller design. The first chapter deals with the famous Monte-Carlo method, and a performance robustness criterion is proposed. The performance robustness criterion would give a new view to study the important issue of how the PID controller performs while the parameters of model are uncertain. In the last chapter, a robust PID controller tuned with the use of the Linear Matrix Inequalities is designed, and applied on an electrostatic micro-beams structure. Finally the last section of this book, entitled “Disturbance Rejection for PID Controller Design” proposes tuning techniques in order to minimize the undesired effects of disturbances, which are present in many real control application problems. Book “PID Controller Design Approaches - Theory, Tuning and Application to Frontier Areas” proposes different PID control strategies for numerous modern technology applications in order to cover the needs of an audience including researchers, scholars and professionals who are interested in advances in PID controllers and related topics. Last but not least, at this point I would like to thank all the authors of this book for the efforts they made in order to submit their chapters and to the InTech publishing working team for their support during all the stages of the publishing process. Dr. Marialena Vagia Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece