Proportional Integral (PI) Control
Proportional Integral (PI) Control
A variation of Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control is to use only the proportional
and integral terms as PI control. The PI controller is the most popular variation, even more
than full PID controllers.
Digital controllers are implemented with discrete sampling periods and a discrete form of the
PI equation is needed to approximate the integral of the error.
PI control is needed for non-integrating processes, meaning any process that eventually
returns to the same output given the same set of inputs and disturbances.
PI Control. Output power equals to the sum of proportion and integration coefficients. The
higher the proportion coefficient, the less the output power at the same control error. The
higher the integration coefficient, the slower the accumulated integration coefficient. PI
control provides zero control error and and is insensitive to interference of the measurement
channel. The PI control disadvantage is slow reaction to disturbances. To adjust the PI
controller you should first set the integration time equal to zero, and the maximum proportion
time. Then by decreasing the coefficient of proportionality, achieve periodic oscillations in
the system. Close to the optimum value of the coefficient of proportionality is twice higher
than that at which any hesitation, and close to the optimum value of the integration time
constant - is 20% less than the oscillation period.