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To overcome the deficiencies addressed in the conventional PID control and improve the dynamic performance and robustness of the system, a simple design and parameters tuning approach of internal model control-PID (IMC-PID) controller was proposed for the first order plus time-delay (FOPTD) process and the second order plus time-delay (SOPTD) process. By approximating the time-delay term of the process model with the first-order Taylor series, the expressions for IMC-PID controller parameters were derived, and they had only one adjustable parameter λ which was directly related to the dynamic performance and robustness of the system. Moreover, an analytical approach of selecting λ was given based on the maximum sensitivity M s. Then, the robust tuning of the system could be achieved according to the value of M s. In addition, the proposed method could be extended to the integrator plus time-delay (IPTD) process and the first order delay integrating (FODI) process. Simulation studies were carried out on various processes with time-delay, and the results show that the proposed method could provide a better dynamic performance of both the set-point tracking and disturbance rejection and robustness against parameters perturbation.
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Foundation item: Project(2007011049) supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province, China
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Zhao, Zc., Liu, Zy. & Zhang, Jg. IMC-PID tuning method based on sensitivity specification for process with time-delay. J. Cent. South Univ. Technol. 18, 1153–1160 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-011-0817-0
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