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Comparison among some well known control schemes with different tuning methods

 

R. Kumar*, S.K. Singla, V. Chopra

 

Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India. *Corresponding author. E-mail address: rajeev07ei35@gmail.com

 

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison between some well-known control schemes such as feedback, feedback plus feed-forward, cascade and cascade plus feed-forward for controlling a third-order process. The controller applied in various control schemes is a PID controller that has been tuned using Ziegler Nichols (ZN) and relay auto-tuning (RA) methods. The comparative analysis is based upon various performance measures such as rise time (t_r), settling time (t_s), maximum overshoot (M_p), steady-state error (e_ss), integral of absolute error (IAE), integral of square error (ISE), integral of time square error (ITSE), and integral of time absolute error (ITAE). Simulation results show that the RA method provides superior performance in case of feedback plus feed-forward and cascade control schemes. On the other hand, the ZN method proves to be better in case of cascade plus feed-forward control scheme.

Keywords: Feedback; Feed-forward; Cascade; PID controller; Ziegler Nichols; Relay auto-tuning.

 

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