Teacher: Roman Vilanova

Program: At the core of process control we find an indispensable tool: The Proportional- Integrative-Derivative, PID, controller. Although many changes and innovations have been introduced since its early development during the 1930s and ’40s, the basic idea behind the PID controller still applies successfully in practice. it seems that PID control is here to stay as the preferred control algorithm, at least at the bottom layer. In general, the tuning of the controller must be done taking into account different objectives, such as output performance, robustness, input usage and noise sensitivity, etc. With this context in mind, the basic aim of the proposed short course is to give a review of current approaches as well as some new insights into the tuning problem by considering unifying approaches to take care of the most relevant conflicting objectives, namely the robustness/performance and servo/regulator trade-offs; recent proposals for handling higher order process dynamics; and resilience considerations with respect to implementation changes, among other topics.

Durata (ore):  10

Lingua:  English