The Ziegler-Nichols (ZN) method is the most widely utilized PID tuning technique in industrial applications. In a practical test with a Zumo robot, the Proportional (P) controller demonstrated superior accuracy in line-following compared to the Proportional-Integral (PI) and Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers. The discussion highlights that due to inherent inaccuracies and variable dead times in instruments, the performance differences among P, PI, and PID controllers are often negligible in real-world scenarios.
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ok thank youJakeBrodskyPE said:The ZN method is probably the most widely used PID tuning method in industry by far. The truth is that instruments and controls are usually sloppy (inaccuracies, variable dead times, hysteresis, etc.) enough that the differences between these methods rarely matter.