Design of a PID Controller with a Performance-Driven Adaptive Mechanism

In this paper, a new design scheme of performance-driven PID controllers whose PID parameters are adjusted based on a control performance criterion. Although a majority of studies have been focused on the derivation of the CPM index, the control parameter tuning method based on the CPM has been hardly studied. Conventional self-tuning controllers are tuned based on the variance of control errors and/or modeling errors. Few adaptive schemes use performance indice as tuning signals, which should be the main driving force in maintaining optimal operation, This paper develops a strategy for the tuning of an adaptive PID controller that is an approximation of a generalized minimum variance controller. The main driving signal for adaptive tuning is the degradation of the controller performance criterion. The effectiveness of the proposed method is numerically evaluated on two simulation examples.