TY - CHAP AU - Micael S. Couceiro AU - Carlos M. Figueiredo AU - Gonçalo Dias AU - Sara M. Machado AU - Nuno M. F. Ferreira ED - Marialena Vagia Y1 - 2012-03-28 PY - 2012 T1 - Design of a Golf Putting Pneumatic Mechanism Integer vs Fractional Order PID N2 - First placed on the market in 1939, the design of PID controllers remains a challenging area that requires new approaches to solving PID tuning problems while capturing the effects of noise and process variations. The augmented complexity of modern applications concerning areas like automotive applications, microsystems technology, pneumatic mechanisms, dc motors, industry processes, require controllers that incorporate into their design important characteristics of the systems. These characteristics include but are not limited to: model uncertainties, system's nonlinearities, time delays, disturbance rejection requirements and performance criteria. The scope of this book is to propose different PID controllers designs for numerous modern technology applications in order to cover the needs of an audience including researchers, scholars and professionals who are interested in advances in PID controllers and related topics. BT - PID Controller Design Approaches SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/32644 DO - 10.5772/32644 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -