I-PD Controller Tuning for Unstable System Using Bacterial Foraging Algorithm : A Study Based on Various Error Criterion

Abstract EN

This paper proposes a novel method to tune the I-PD controller structure for the time-delayed unstable process (TDUP) using Bacterial Foraging Optimization (BFO) algorithm.

The tuning process is focussed to search the optimal controller parameters (Kp, Ki, Kd) by minimising the multiple objective performance criterion.

A comparative study on various cost functions like Integral of Squared Error (ISE), Integral of Absolute Error (IAE), Integral of Time-weighted Squared Error (ITSE), and Integral of Time weighted Absolute Error (ITAE) have been attempted for a class of TDUP.

A simulation study for BFO-based I-PD tuning has been done to validate the performance of the proposed method.

The results show that the tuning approach is a model independent approach and provides enhanced performance for the setpoint tracking with improved time domain specifications.