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Re: PID Help

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
They are different. LabVIEW uses the "Academic form" of PID instead of the "parallel form" that most tutorials assume. See the conversion details at the bottom of http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/h...re_conversion/ for some insight into what the differences are and what they mean.
Aha! Thanks for this Alan. I've been reluctant to use LV's PID because I couldn't relate the gains to the time inputs. Now I see how I could use the conventional gain coefficients that I read about in the tutorials. I didn't know a different perspective existed.
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