This paper analyses the control of nonlinear plant with the changing dynamics. Adaptive controllers, based on fuzzy logics, are synthesized for the control of air pressure and water level. Their satisfactory efficiency is experimentally demonstrated under different working conditions. Fuzzy controllers are compared to conventional PI and PID controllers.

The internal model control (IMC) scheme has been widely applied in the field of process control. So far, IMC has been mainly applied to linear processes. This paper discusses the extension of the IMC scheme to nonlinear processes based on local linear models where the properties of linear design procedures can be exploited. The IMC scheme results in controllers that are comparable to gain-sched...

The increasing complexity of the modern control systems has emphasized the idea of applying new approaches in order to solve design problems for different control engineering problems. This paper reports a performance comparison between traditional (linear PID controller) and evolvable methods (evolvable hardware controllers) applied to the problem of three-degrees-of-freedom manipulator contro...

This paper describes the development and tuning methods for a novel self-organizing fuzzy proportional integral derivative (PID) controller. Before applying fuzzy logic, the PID gains are tuned using a conventional tuning method. At supervisory level, fuzzy logic readjusts the PID gains online. In the first tuning method, fuzzy logic at the supervisory level readjusts the three PID gains during...

The 3 degree of freedom (3-DOF) helicopter system is a typical higher-order times, instability, multi-variable, nonlinear and strong coupling control system. This paper presents the analysis of the mathematical model and the basic principle of PID control and fuzzy PID control, which are based on 3-DOF helicopter systems. In allusion to balance control of 3-DOF helicopter system, PID controller...

In this paper, a fractional order flight controller design scheme for the altitude control of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV is presented. The altitude control system can be decoupled and identified as a simple first order plus time delay model under some constraints. Based on this identified model, the traditional modified Ziegler-Nichols PI controller can be designed. Meanwhile, the...

This article presents a comparison of controllers which have been applied to a fixed‐wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The comparison is realized between classical linear controllers and nonlinear control laws. The concerned linear controllers are: Proportional‐ Derivative (PD) and Proportional‐Integral‐Derivative (PID), while the nonlinear controllers are: backstepping, ...