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Design of PI controllers for achieving time and frequency domain specifications simultaneously.

Serdar Ethem Hamamci¹, Nusret Tan

¹Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Inonu University, 44280 Malatya, Turkey. shamamci@inonu.edu.tr

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|October 27, 2006

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Automation and Process Control

Background:

Achieving desired performance in control systems often involves balancing conflicting frequency and time domain specifications.
Traditional PI controller design methods may not effectively address simultaneous optimization of these measures.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a systematic and user-friendly method for designing Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers.
To enable simultaneous achievement of specified frequency domain (gain/phase margins) and time domain (settling time/overshoot) performance metrics.

Main Methods:

A graphical design approach is presented, relating required performance values to PI controller parameters.
Performance measures, including gain margin, phase margin, settling time, and overshoot, are defined upfront.
The method utilizes graphical relations to identify suitable PI controller parameters.

Main Results:

A set of PI controllers meeting predefined performance specifications can be determined.
The proposed method offers an effective and straightforward way to design PI controllers.
Illustrative examples demonstrate the practical benefits and efficacy of the presented design technique.

Conclusions:

The developed graphical method provides a systematic solution for PI controller design.
It facilitates the simultaneous attainment of critical frequency and time domain performance criteria.
The approach is effective and simple to apply, offering significant advantages in control system design.