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Performance comparison between PID and dead-time compensating controllers

Ingimundarson, Ari LU and Hägglund, Tore LU (2002) In Journal of Process Control 12(8). p.887-895
Abstract
This paper is intended to answer the question: “When is a simple dead-time compensator expected to perform better than a PID?”. The performance criterion used is the integrated absolute error (IAE). It is compared for PI and PID controllers and a simple dead-time compensator (DTC) when a step load disturbance is applied at the plant input. Both stable and integrating processes are considered. For a fair comparison the controllers should provide equal robustness in some sense. Here, as a measure of robustness, the maximum of the absolute value of the sensitivity function is used. Since this is not a sufficient measure of robustness when errors in the dead time are considered, performance of the DTC's is given also as a function of dead-time... (More)
This paper is intended to answer the question: “When is a simple dead-time compensator expected to perform better than a PID?”. The performance criterion used is the integrated absolute error (IAE). It is compared for PI and PID controllers and a simple dead-time compensator (DTC) when a step load disturbance is applied at the plant input. Both stable and integrating processes are considered. For a fair comparison the controllers should provide equal robustness in some sense. Here, as a measure of robustness, the maximum of the absolute value of the sensitivity function is used. Since this is not a sufficient measure of robustness when errors in the dead time are considered, performance of the DTC's is given also as a function of dead-time margin (DM) where appropriate. (Less)
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PID control, Dead-time compensators, Performance comparison
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Journal of Process Control
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12
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8
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887 - 895
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Elsevier
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1873-2771
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10.1016/S0959-1524(02)00017-3
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English
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  series       = {{Journal of Process Control}},
  title        = {{Performance comparison between PID and dead-time compensating controllers}},
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