The PI plus p controller structure and its tuning

This manuscript is part of a long-term research, aimed at establishing methodologically grounded relationships between model- and relay-based tuning of industrial regulators, and at consequently deriving synthesis procedures that couple the advantages of model-based tuning to the simplicity and clarity of relay-based identification. In this work, the addressed controller structure is the "PI+p", i.e., a PI augmented with an additional, stable pole. The advantages of using the combined model-relay-based approach on that structure are evidenced, by means of both simulation and experimental results. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.