Controller Tuning Course - Instrumentation and Industrial Automation

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How to Actually Tune Control Loops?

Tuning a control loop is often called an "art," or it is also said that only very experienced people can effectively tune one.

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Recommendations: Document your tuning work, use of "auto-tuning"«

Finally, when we're tuning in, it's important to document your work. This means capturing and recording screenshots and trend graphs from both open-loop and closed-loop tests.

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What initial values should be used in a PID?

If you design processes or control loops, you may need to find reasonable controller configurations or parameters before you can make any adjustments. If you face

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With PID or without PID? When to use a more "advanced" controller«

The venerable and "mythical" Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) algorithm can solve a variety of feedback control problems, but not all. Loops using PID controllers are by far the most common method.

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Control Loop “Tuner” Tools and Utilities (Part 2 of 2)

In the post I showed you 4 of the 9 tools for tuning PID loops that I always use (with good results), which are: Process Historian Spreadsheet or Excel (PID Tuning)

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Control Loop “Tuner” Tools and Utilities (Part 1 of 2)

A control loop tuner (Control Engineer, Automation Technician, Instrument Technician, etc.) must be proficient in the use of a variety of tools to be effective in any control loop.

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Formal tuning or "trial and error"?

If I count the times I've been asked: "Jose Carlos, what do you prefer or use: a quantitative PID tuning method (Ziegler-Nichols for example) or 'Trial and Error'?"... well, I think that

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Practical rules for tuning PID controllers: final recommendations

Knowing which control action we will focus on first when tuning is a matter of understanding the characteristics of the process (identifying whether it is self-regulating, integrative,

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Controller tuning by heuristic method: "trial and error"«

In contrast to quantitative tuning procedures where the numerical values for the controller's PID parameter settings are obtained through data collection and

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Multiple lag time: multiple delays in our processes and instruments

Simply put, self-regulating processes tend to be first-order: this means they only have one delay mechanism. However, some complex processes generally consist of subprocesses.,

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