PID control

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This book describes how to control variables of physical dynamic systems - as level, temperature, pressure, speed, and position - using the PID controller. (PID = proportional, integral, derivative.) This controller is without doubt the most important and most frequently used controller used in practical industrial applications. There may be hundreds of PID control systems in one industrial plant to keep process variables close to their set-points and to ensure the stability of the whole plant. This book gives a well written and easily understandable introduction to practical and theoretical aspects of PID control of dynamic systems, well suited for introductory control courses in B.Sc. and in M.Sc. studies. It is also a reference for the practical engineer. The theoretical basis for this book may be found in the book Dynamic Systems - modeling, analysis and simulation by the same author. Lots of supplementary materials - as ready-to-run simulators and documents describing computer tools for modeling, analysis, design, and simulation of PID control systems, and more general feedback control systems - are available for free from the home page of the book at http://tecteach.no. The author, Finn Haugen, has a M.Sc. degree in engineering cybernetics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1985. He has been teaching dynamic systems and control engineering for students and engineers for a couple of decades. He works in his own company TechTeach, and also holds a position at the Telemark University College in Norway.