pidtuneOptions

Define options for pidtune command

Syntax

opt = pidtuneOptions
opt = pidtuneOptions(Name,Value)

Description

opt = pidtuneOptions returns the default option set for the pidtune command.

opt = pidtuneOptions(Name,Value) creates an option set with the options specified by one or more Name,Value pair arguments.

Input Arguments

Name-Value Pair Arguments

Specify optional comma-separated pairs of Name,Value arguments. Name is the argument name and Value is the corresponding value. Name must appear inside quotes. You can specify several name and value pair arguments in any order as Name1,Value1,...,NameN,ValueN.

'PhaseMargin'

Target phase margin in degrees. pidtune attempts to design a controller such that the phase margin is at least the value specified for PhaseMargin. The selected crossover frequency could restrict the achievable phase margin. Typically, higher phase margin improves stability and overshoot, but limits bandwidth and response speed.

Default: 60

'DesignFocus'

Closed-loop performance objective to favor in the design. For a given target phase margin, pidtune chooses a controller design that balances the two measures of performance, reference tracking and disturbance rejection. When you change the DesignFocus option, the tuning algorithm attempts to adjust the PID gains to favor either reference tracking or disturbance rejection while achieving the same target phase margin. In the control architecture assumed by pidtune, shown in the following diagram, reference tracking is the response at y to signals at r, and disturbance rejection is the suppression at y of signals at d.

The DesignFocus option can take the following values:

  • 'balanced' (default) — For a given robustness, tune the controller to balance reference tracking and disturbance rejection.

  • 'reference-tracking' — Tune the controller to favor reference tracking, if possible.

  • 'disturbance-rejection' — Tune the controller to favor disturbance rejection, if possible.

The more tunable parameters there are in the system, the more likely it is that the PID algorithm can achieve the desired design focus without sacrificing robustness. For example, setting the design focus is more likely to be effective for PID controllers than for P or PI controllers. In all cases, how much you can fine-tune the performance of the system depends strongly on the properties of your plant.

For an example illustrating the effect of this option, see Tune PID Controller to Favor Reference Tracking or Disturbance Rejection (Command Line).

Default: 'balanced'

'NumUnstablePoles'

Number of unstable poles in the plant. When your plant is a frd model or a state-space model with internal delays, you must specify the number of open-loop unstable poles (if any). Incorrect values might result in PID controllers that fail to stabilize the real plant. (pidtune ignores this option for other model types.)

Unstable poles are poles located at:

  • Re(s) > 0, for continuous-time plants

  • |z| > 1, for discrete-time plants

A pure integrator in the plant (s = 0) or (|z| > 1) does not count as an unstable pole for NumUnstablePoles. If your plant is a frd model of a plant with a pure integrator, for best results, ensure that your frequency response data covers a low enough frequency to capture the integrator slope.

Default: 0

Output Arguments

opt

Object containing the specified options for pidtune.

Examples

Tune a PIDF controller with a target phase margin of 45 degrees, favoring the disturbance-rejection measure of performance. 

sys = tf(1,[1 3 3 1]);
opts = pidtuneOptions('PhaseMargin',45,'DesignFocus','disturbance-rejection');
[C,info] = pidtune(sys,'pid',opts);

Tips

  • When using the pidtune command to design a PID controller for a plant with unstable poles, if your plant model is one of the following:

    • A frd model

    • A ss model with internal delays that cannot be converted to I/O delays

    then use pidtuneOptions to specify the number of unstable poles in the plant.

See Also

Topics

Introduced in R2010b

Control System Toolbox Documentation

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