PIDcontrollerFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaAproportional–integral–derivativecontroller(PIDcontroller)isageneric.controlloopfeedbackmechanismwidelyusedinindustrialcontrolsystems.APIDcontrollerattemptstocorrecttheerrorbetweenameasuredprocessvariableandadesiredsetpointbycalculatingandthenoutputtingacorrectiveactionthatcanadjusttheprocessaccordingly.ThePIDcontrollercalculation(algorithm)involvesthreeseparateparameters;theProportional,theIntegralandDerivativevalues.TheProportionalvaluedeterminesthereactiontothecurrenterror,theIntegraldeterminesthereactionbasedonthesumofrecenterrorsandtheDerivativedeterminesthereactiontotherateatwhichtheerrorhasbeenchanging.Theweightedsumofthesethreeactionsisusedtoadjusttheprocessviaacontrolelementsuchasthepositionofacontrolvalveorthepowersupplyofaheatingelement.By"tuning"thethreeconstantsinthePIDcontrolleralgorithmthePIDcanprovidecontrolactiondesignedforspecificprocessrequirements.Theresponseofthecontrollercanbedescribedintermsoftheresponsivenessofthecontrollertoanerror,thedegreetowhichthecontrollerovershootsthesetpointandthedegreeofsystemoscillation.NotethattheuseofthePIDalgorithmforcontroldoesnotguaranteeoptimalcontrolofthesystemorsystemstability.Someapplicationsmayrequireusingonlyoneortwomodestoprovidetheappropriatesystemcontrol.Thisisachievedbysettingthegainofundesiredcontroloutputstozero.APIDcontrollerwillbecalledaPI,PD,PorIcontrollerintheabsenceoftherespectivecontrolactions.PIcontrollersareparticularlycommon,sincederivativeactionisverysensitivetomeasurementnoise,andtheabsenceofanintegralvaluemaypreventthesystemfromreachingitstargetvalueduetothecontrolaction.AblockdiagramofaPIDcontrollerNote:Duetothediversityofthefieldofcontroltheoryandapplication,manynamingconventionsfortherelevantvariablesareincommonuse.1.ControlloopbasicsAfamiliarexampleofacontrolloopistheactiontakentokeepone'sshowerwaterattheidealtemperature,whichtypicallyinvolvesthemixingoftwoprocessstreams,coldandhotwater.Thepersonfeelsthewatertoestimateitstemp