PID Controllers Design within the Context of Online Educational Activities

Abstract

The problem of designing conventional controllers is a major concern in both academia and industry. The paper presents the implementation of a Matlab interface that facilitates the students’ understanding of the closed-loop control systems operation. There are four operating scenarios: with controllers for which the parameters are known; with controllers for which parameters are determined experimentally; with proportional controllers and additional poles/zeros introduction; with proportional controllers and serial compensator.

Experiments on temperature regulation using a Peltier element and PID technique

“…A temperature is easier to measure accurately, and the quality of the regulation can be accessed, but the experimenter has to wait longer for results. Examples of such experiments on temperature regulation, for heating only, are given in [5,6], and the design procedure for selecting adequate operating parameters for the PID regulator is provided in [7]. Heating elements are used in apparatuses described, and these can only elevate the temperature of an object above the surrounding temperature.…”