A fairly common stumbling block for those new to controller tuning relates to step 2 of the controller design and tuning recipe. Step 2 says to “collect controller output (CO) […]
The controller design and tuning recipe we have used so successfully on this site requires that we bump our process and collect dynamic data as the process responds. For the […]
Ziegler and Nichols first proposed their method in 1942. It is a trial-and-error loop tuning technique that is still widely used today. The automatic mode (closed-loop) procedure is as follows: