Determination of the PID controller parameters for speed and position control of DC motor using Gravitational Search Algorithm

In this paper we use a new search heuristic called Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) to determination of the optimal PID controller parameters in the speed and position control of a DC motor. The model of a DC motor is considered as second and third order system. Mean squared error (MSE) performance index has been used as objective function. End of the optimization process, the rise and the settling times and the overshoot are compared to those reported in the literature. To show that effectiveness of proposed method are compared with Ziegler-Nichols method in speed control of DC motor. Simulation results show the effectiveness and robustness of proposed controllers to provide the speed and position control of DC motor.