Controller design methods for linear systems with emphasis on integrating processes

Abstract

Certain new approaches for designing efficient controllers for linear systems in particular for integrating processes are proposed in this thesis The parameters of the proposed proportional integral derivative PID controllers and its variants are optimized by minimizing the integral square error ISE using the so called bacterial foraging algorithm BFA Although ISE is a standard minimization criterion as well as BFA has certain advantages such as better solution quality and good conve