15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
TUNING DECENTRALIZED PID CONTROLLERS FOR MIMO SYSTEMS WITH DECOUPLERS
Francisco Vázquez     Fernando Morilla
fvazquez@uco.es. Dpto de Informática y Análisis Numérico.
Universidad de Córdoba. Córdoba (SPAIN)
fmorilla@dia.uned.es. Dpto. de Informática y Automática.
Facultad de Ciencias. UNED. Madrid (SPAIN)

In this work, a method for controlling multivariable processes is presented. The controller design is divided into two parts: firstly, a decoupling matrix is designed in order to minimize the interaction effects. Then, the controller design is obtained for the process-decoupler block. For this purpose, an iterative numeric algorithm, proposed by same authors, is used. The aim is to meet the design specifications for each loop independently. This sequential design method for multivariable decoupling and multiloop PID controller is applied to several examples from literature. Decentralized PID controller design, specifications analysis and time response simulations has been made using the TITO tool, a set of m functions written in Matlab.
Keywords: PID controllers, multivariable control systems, decoupling
Session slot T-Tu-M21: Posters of Control Design/Area code 2a : Control Design