PID Controller Tuning on a Thermal System: Manual vs Ziegler-Nichols vs Autotuner
Thermal systems have large time constants and pure dead time that make Ziegler-Nichols overshoot badly. What actually worked and how I validated it without an industrial process tool.
Thermal systems have large time constants and pure dead time that make Ziegler-Nichols overshoot badly. What actually worked and how I validated it without an industrial process tool.
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- pid
- control-theory
- embedded
- thermal
- tuning
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