PID controller tuning for unstable processes using a multi-objective optimisation design procedure

Abstract

Multi-objective optimisation techniques have shown to be a useful tool for controller tuning applications. Such techniques are useful when: 1) it is difficult to find a controller with a desirable trade-off between conflictive objectives; or 2) it is valuable to extract an additional knowledge from the process by analysing trade-off among possible controllers. In this work, we propose a multi-objective optimisation design procedure for unstable process, using PID controllers. The provided examples show the usability of the procedure for this kind of process, sometimes difficult to control; comparison with existing tuning rule methods provide promising results for this tuning procedure.