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Give us PID controllers and we can control the world

Hägglund, Tore LU and Guzman, Josè Luis (2024) 4th IFAC Conference on Advances in Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control 58. p.103-108
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of PID control for our society in general and for the control engineering community in particular. To this end, we first equate the relevance of PID controllers with other inventions in history to remark how PID control has contributed to revolutionizing our world as the main ambassador of the automatic control field. Afterwards, the PID control resilience is provided by showing a brief historical evolution to realize its timely adaptation, and how nowadays it is much more than just the three terms; P, I, and D. Moreover, it is summarized how PID control has been demonstrated to be equivalent to other optimal control solutions and how the recurrent comparison with Model Predictive... (More)
The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of PID control for our society in general and for the control engineering community in particular. To this end, we first equate the relevance of PID controllers with other inventions in history to remark how PID control has contributed to revolutionizing our world as the main ambassador of the automatic control field. Afterwards, the PID control resilience is provided by showing a brief historical evolution to realize its timely adaptation, and how nowadays it is much more than just the three terms; P, I, and D. Moreover, it is summarized how PID control has been demonstrated to be equivalent to other optimal control solutions and how the recurrent comparison with Model Predictive Control (MPC) is not necessary at all, as both control algorithms should be considered as complementary approaches. Finally, encouragements and suggestions are summarized to continue working on PID control topics. (Less)
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PID control, control engineering, history, classical control
host publication
IFAC-PapersOnLine
volume
58
pages
103 - 108
conference name
4th IFAC Conference on Advances in Proportional-Integral-Derivative Control
conference location
Almeria, Spain
conference dates
2024-06-12 - 2024-06-14
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  • scopus:85203053489
DOI
10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.018
project
Decentralized Control Structures
PID Control
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English
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  doi          = {{10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.018}},
  volume       = {{58}},
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