Design and experiment of a IMC-based PID controller using multiple local linear models

In this paper, a new PID controller design scheme is proposed for non-linear systems. According to this scheme, the system model is first generated by using local linear models. Then, it is described a design of internal model controllers(IMC) based on the local linear models. The internal model control has a simple structure and has a high robustness for system uncertainties. However, there are few studies of IMC schemes for non-linear systems. On the other hand, lots of controlled systems have non-linearities. Finally the effectiveness of the newly proposed control scheme is experiment examples in comparison with the conventional control methods for non-linear systems.