M4E #73: PID Controller explained
A PID controller is a type of feedback control system commonly used in engineering and industrial applications to regulate processes and control systems. Today’s video from RealPars will explain us how they work.
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Some applications of PID mentioned in the video are temperature and motion control, but they can also be used for power control (e.g. voltage regulation or power factor correction), chemical processing, distillation columns, evaporators, neutralizers…
PID control is designed to work with linear processes, that’s way in the case of non-linear processes a good way to control them more reliably with a PID is to make them linear. You can read more here.
Currently, there are some approaches to achieve PID tuning that can be found in the literature. For example, by applying reinforcement learning, or using neural networks.