Performing Speed Control of a DC Motor with Auto-Tuning PID


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Çınar S. M., Balcı Z., Yabanova İ.

Afyon Kocatepe Üniversitesi Fen ve Mühendislik Bilimleri Dergisi, cilt.19, sa.3, ss.690-696, 2019 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

Although advanced controllers are used in control applications, proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers are preferred in industry due to their simple structure and ease of application. However, it can difficult to set these controller parameters for the controlled platform. These parameters tuning with trial-error method leads to time and job loss, and the parameters determined in this way cannot provide a sufficiently efficient operating characteristic. In order to overcome this problem related to PID parameter tuning many automatic tuning methods have been developed.  In this paper, the automatic tuning method proposed by Aström and Hagglund was applied to a DC motor speed control system. The DC motor speed control system was implemented in an interface designed on Laboratory Virtual Instrument Electronic Workbench (LabVIEW) environment and CompactRIO unit. The PID parameters obtained with trial-error and two types auto-tuning methods were tested in the DC motor control system and achieved results were compered. The results showed that performance of the PID controller tuned with LAbVIEW auto-tuning method is better than others.