Fully automated PID and lead/lag compensator design tool for industrial use

This paper presents the development procedure of a fully automated software based one-touch-and-go PID controller and lead/lag compensator design tool. The key goal is to help industrial process control engineers by providing underlying theory and implementation techniques behind some PID controller design tools already available in the market and to present how these techniques could be developed to automatically tune other controllers. The design tool is designed to communicate with the plant and handle the controller tuning and control tasks automatically. Results obtained by implementing the developed design tool to an experimental liquid level control and temperature control systems show promise