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Vance VanDoren, Ph.D., P.E., Consulting Editor, Control Engineering

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PLCs, PACs November 1, 2009

Sorting out PID controller differences

Back in college, I learned that the ubiquitous proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control algorithm consists of three operators or terms acting on the error signal as shown in the “Theoretical PID algorithm” graphic.

By Vance VanDoren, Ph.D., P.E., Consulting Editor, Control Engineering