Experimental Validation of Fully Informed Particle Swarm Optimization Tuned Multi-Loop L-PID Controllers for Stabilization of Gantry Crane System

Linear PID controllers are commonly used as an electrical component to decrease the error between anticipated set value and actual measured values for control of various benchmarked systems. The Multi-Loop Linear PID (ML-PID) controller, gives a robust and efficient performance in most of the situations. This paper presents the implementation of linear PID controller to stabilize and control the Gantry Crane System. Optimal performance is obtained for a few specific combinations of the proportional, integral, and derivative gains, which makes it essential to tune these values through Optimization techniques. The Fully Informed Particle Swarm Optimizer (FIPSO) is used to tune the gain values of the ML-PID controlled Gantry Crane System. These values are validated experimentally, and obtained results prove that the FIPSO tuned multi-loop linear PID controller quickly stabilizes the system subjected to external disturbances.