• Journal of Engineering Education Research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.3-7
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• 2016

A flow control system was designed and fabricated to control the flow rate of liquid through the pipe. This control system was composed of hardwares and software, hardwares as controller, gate valve, orifice meter and data aquisition board and software as National instruments Labview program. Control of flow rate was executed by adjusting the pneumatic valve located at the center of pipe line based on the control signal generated by LabView PID control algorithm, which converts analog signal measured by pressure difference of orifice to digital signal to adjust pneumatic valve. For the controller setup Ziegler-Nichols tuning technique was applied and control performances were investigated for not only the disturbance but also the set point changes. Developed system showed good control performances in flow control enough to use as teaching tool of feedback control theory and practice in university, and also as industrial application.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.36-42
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• 1996

In this paper, we proposed a PID controller, which could control unknown plants using Artificial Neural Network(ANN) for auto-tuning of the PID parameters. In the proposed algorithm, the parameters of the controller were adjusted to reduce the error of the controlled plant. In this process, the sensitivity between input and output of the unknown plant was needed. So, in order to obtain this sensitivity, the ANN's learnig ability was used. Computer simualtions were performed for the regulation problems, and the results were compared with those of Ziegler-Nichols PID controller. As a result, it was shown that the proposed algorithm outperformed Ziegler-Nichols controller in rise time, overshoot, undershoot, and setting time.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.49 no.10
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• pp.637-645
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• 2000

This study was represented the improvement of the flexible position control for linear motion of hybrid type linear pulse motor(HLPM). The driving method used a minute 125 microstep drive instead of full step drive method. The digital control method was applied to the PI control for more stable position control, at this time the PI control parameters have gained by a Ziegler-Nichols turning method. The loop transfer function of control system was combined with both motor transfer function and digital PI control equation. Such, the proper for digital PI control system is verified to through the simulation and experimental result of the stability step response and bode plot with proper gain and phase margin.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07d
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• pp.2470-2472
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• 2001

This paper describes the application of a fuzzy-tuning PID controller to a 3-DOF attitude control of a small model helicopter in hover for the compensation of coupling effects between each axis and system uncertainties due to the variation of engine RPM. A Low-level PID controller is designed by Ziegler-Nichols method and its gains are tuned by a high-level fuzzy system based on error states and its time derivatives. The experimental results show that the attitude control performance of fuzzy-tuning PID controller is improved comparing with that of a Ziegler-Nichols PID controller and fuzzy controller.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• v.11B no.2
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• pp.28-33
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• 2001

The subject of this study is to improve the position performance of the linear motion for hybrid type Linear Pulse Motor (HLPM). Generally, there are two applicable methods to ensure precise position control ; a good processing method. This paper is suggested an electrical 125 microstep driving method so as to achieves the excellent control performance, besides the small mechanical manufacture of teeth pitch. The compensation method of digital PI control is apply to step response of stable position control, step error, vibration suppression and the approach to high stability, and the Ziegler-Nichols tuning method is applied to the proper design of control parameter. The proposed control method has been verified by simulation results of the suitable gain and phase margin of bode plot, and from experiment result of step response.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.165-170
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• 2010

This paper presents a comparative study of P and PI controllers for a current source inverter (CSI) fed induction motor drive system. A dq model has been used which incorporates the induction motor and the inverter power supply with current feedback. The model is used first to generate the steady state curves to determine the operating point through computer simulations using the software package MATLAB. Then a transient analysis has been carried out for different values of the speed and current controller parameters. The controller value is adjusted by the Ziegler-Nichols method. It has been observed that the transient time to reach the steady state value is larger with the PI controller than with the P controller.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.9
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• pp.1065-1071
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• 2012

Wind energy is becoming one of the most preferable alternatives to conventional sources of electric power that rely on fossil fuels. For stable electric power generation, constant rotating speed control of a wind turbine is performed through pitch control and stall control of the turbine blades. Recently, variable pitch control has been implemented in modern wind turbines to harvest more energy at variable wind speeds that are even lower than the rated one. Although wind turbine pitch controllers are currently optimized using a step response via the Ziegler-Nichols auto-tuning process, this approach does not satisfy the requirements of variable pitch control. In this study, the variable pitch controller was optimized by a genetic algorithm using a neural network model that was constructed by the Latin Hypercube sampling method to improve the Ziegler-Nichols auto-tuning process. The optimized solution shows that the root mean square error, rise time, and settle time are respectively improved by more than 7.64%, 15.8%, and 15.3% compared with the corresponding initial solutions obtained by the Ziegler-Nichols auto-tuning process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.111-116
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• 2004

In this paper, parameters of a given DC motor system are estimated using the model adjustment technique and the real coded genetic algorithm(RCGA) technique. A number of tuning methods, based on experience and experiment, such as Ziegler-Nichols, Cohen-Coon, IMC, L-ITAE Method have been proposed to obtain parameters for the PID controller. This paper proposes estimating parameters of PID controller using RCGA. The performance of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated through simulations and experiences.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.96-106
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• 2001

As the drilling depth increases, the cutting torque increases and fluctuates, which can lead to the machine tool vibration, severe tool wear, and catastrophic tool breakage. Hence, cutting torque control is very important to improve productivity in drilling. In this paper, a PID controller was designed to control the drilling torque. The plant including the feed drive system, cutting process and spindle drive system was modeled for controller design. The Ziegler-Nichols method was used to determine the controller gain and control action times and the root locus plot was used to tune the controller gain for a certain cutting condition. Also, suggested was a simple method to obtain the tuned controller gain for an arbitrary cutting condition not using the Ziegler-Nichols method and the root locus plot. The performance of the designed controller and the effect of controller gain tuning were verified from experiments.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.38 no.10
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• pp.1297-1302
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• 2014

This paper presents modern optimization methods for determining the optimal parameters of proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for coupled tank systems. The main objective is to obtain a fast and stable control system for coupled tank systems by tuning of the PID controller using the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The result is compared in terms of system transient characteristics in time domain. The obtained results using the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm are also compared to conventional PID tuning method like the Ziegler-Nichols tuning method, the Cohen-Coon method and IMC (Internal Model Control). The simulation results have been simulated by MATLAB and show that tuning the PID controller using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm provides a fast and stable control system with low overshoot, fast rise time and settling time.