Short and robust experiments in relay autotuners

This paper demonstrates how second-order time-delayed models adequate for PID controller synthesis can be identified from significantly shorter relay experiments, than used in previous publications to obtain first-order time-delayed models. Apart from having good noise robustness properties, the proposed method explicitly addresses non-stationary initial states of the dynamics to be identified, and handles constant load disturbances.

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