View Single Post
  #9   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 25-01-2011, 23:13
Alan Anderson's Avatar
Alan Anderson Alan Anderson is offline
Software Architect
FRC #0045 (TechnoKats)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Posts: 9,113
Alan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond reputeAlan Anderson has a reputation beyond repute
Re: PID Loop Question

Quote:
Originally Posted by EricVanWyk View Post
If I am understanding you correctly, you were essentially integrating the output of a PD controller, which would effectively give you a PI controller?

Integrated once, P becomes I, D becomes P, so PD = IP = PI?
Yep, that's apparently what's going on. It explains why I've been improperly suggesting PD control where pretty much everyone else uses PI.

Quote:
I'm wondering if there are any useful side effects to this method... I'll ponder it more when I'm not on drugs (lousy cold!)
I toyed with closed-loop speed control back in the IFI controller days, when debugging wasn't quite as easy as probing LabVIEW wires or opening a front panel window. I was using a servo as an analog indicator to show me what the PID computation was producing as its output, and I wanted a consistent zero point.