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Data-Based Tuning of PID Controllers: A Combined Model- Reference and VRFT Method
This chapter presents a novel data-based proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller tuning method that can be applied to stable, integrating, and unstable plants. The tuning method is developed under the virtual reference feedback tuning (VRFT) design framework, where the reference model of VRFT is coordinately optimized with the controller on the basis of the model-reference (MR) criterion to ensure the validity of the VRFT approach. In the proposed MR-VRFT method, a set of closed-loop plant data are directly exploited without resorting to a process model. Because of its closed-loop tuning capability, the MR-VRFT method can be applied online to improve (retune) existing underperforming controllers. Moreover, the tuning method includes a robustness specification based on the maximum sensitivity that enables the designer to explicitly address the trade-off between performance and robustness. Simulation studies, including the application to an unstable biochemical reactor, are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of MR-VRFT method.
Part of the book: PID Control for Industrial Processes