PID Books

An excellent reference about PID controllers, Process Models, and Tuning Methods.

I have been working for more than 16 years as an Instrumentation, Automation and Process Safety and Control Engineer for the Oil & Gas Industry. I found this book to be a good bridge between the theory and industrial practical applications of PID controllers.

A readable text that will be useful for students and practitioners of Process Control.

This book is a survey on a broad topic of PID control.
Plainly explains the subject rather than rigorous anlaysis.
To get the idea and for reference, this book will inform the reader well.

I have used this book as a "self study", when I was working in control industry (Kongsberg and ABB) and found it very helpful.

I have also recommended the book to all my students when teaching control theory in the College of Bergen (Norway). This book holds mush of the traditional theory and is a bridge to get theory into practical use in the industry.

I will also mention Åstrøms new book "Introduction to Control" that I am looking forward to see in the bookstore. This book gives a traditional introduction that focus on the "full picture" and good understanding. A must for the best universities!

Most industrial controllers are PI or PID controllers, and few textbooks or accademic Journal articles address them. I've been working in industrial process control for over twenty years and this book is one of the best one's I've found on PI/PID control. The presentation is practical rather than theoretical (some might miss not having more math). The first four chapters summarize when PI/PID control is useful and present several of the traditional tuning methods. Chapter 5 presents new tuning algorithms that are easy to apply in practice and usually result in better control that older methods (like the atrocious Ziegler-Nichols). Chapter 6 gets side-tracked discussing commercial products that will rapidly be out of date. Chapter 7 returns to practical applications and simple examples - I was amused to see boiler drum level control discussed in one page when we've spent so much time on this problem! The one thing missing from the book is control of nonlinear systems - even the simple example of level control with a fixed stroke-time valve is omitted - but aside from this shortcoming, it is a most useful book.

This book is quite good reference for engineering students to do their design project about control system.

A very practical approach for system identification techniques Using Laguerre Models with an appropriated mathematical support

This book is really good make me understand the process of identification in a really easy language, a lot of practical examples with the proper mathematical support, excellent for process control and identification courses can be a good complement of the ljung's matlab toolbox.

This book presents a practical approach to process control for the chemical, refining, pulp and paper, utilities and similar industries.

The book serves both the beginning and experienced control systems engineer. For the beginner it iniatily presents very simple concepts. For the experienced, it develops these initial concepts so as to provide deeper understanding or new insights into familiar concepts.

The book is distributed in the following way:
- Introduction.
- Mathematical background, diagrams and terminology.
- Process and control loops characteristics.
- PID control.
- Tuning feedback control loops.
- Self tuning.
- Advanced regulatory control.
- Cascade control.
- Ratio control.
- Feedforward control.
- Override control.
- Control for interacting process loops.
- Dead-time compensation and model-based control.
- Multivariable model predictive control.
- Other control techniques.

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I've bought this book because I need to understand PID controllers and use them in practice. I've tried many books on PID controllers, but they were written from experts to experts and were of absolutely no value to me. A lot of differential mathematics with no practical examples.
This book is totally the opposite - it gives you the starting point on learning control theory. It is obvious the author has a lot of real experience in the field opposite to some other pure academic authors which don't look outside the math of the theory.
I definitely recommend the book to every engineer or student who wants to understand the practical side of control theory.

I am a Professional Practitioner of Industrial Measurement and Control. I have been working as an Instrumentation, Automation and Process Safety and Control Engineer for more than 16 years in the Oil & Gas Industry.

I found this book to be a great help when tryung to explain or train technicians about single loop Controllers, PID and Tuning.

The author does his best to explain the essence of feedback control without going in-depth into math.

If you want a more rigorous treatment of the subject you should consider " PID Controllers: Theory, Design and Tuning". By K. Astrom and T. Hagglund (published by ISA)

This book started out as an internal Dupont memo to provide an introduction to process control to those in the company without previous training. It teaches the base fundamentals, as well as open and closed loop tuning methods. However, if you want the math or rigorous proofs (or any proofs for that matter) you will need to purchase more in depth text books. It is written with field tuning in mind, not control design. It is a short text, but to the point and an incredibly easy read.

I cannot understand how in the world other folks gave this book a five-star review, other than to assume they basically already knew all the material and agreed with it. (I also suspect that they also knew the AUTHOR).

Unlike those other readers, I have very little experience with controllers and tuning. (I do have mathematical training, so it was not a matter of the material being too difficult.)

I cannot speak for the technical quality of the material in the book, since I was not able to follow the presentation. And on that end, the book fails pretty badly. The level of quality in this book is typical of self-published works. The author did not take the time to organize his thoughts and present them in a logical way where one thing builds upon another. Instead he jumps right in the middle using terms and concepts that book purports to teach you. There are countless times when terms are used then defined later. He'll tell you some very important fact (in bold type and ALL CAPS no less) about a concept that he has not yet introduced. But then when he does get around to "introducing" something (a few chapters later) the "introduction" mainly consists of repeating what he said earlier and telling you how important it is. Nowhere is there a general description of what the concept is or how it fits into the bigger picture.

Basically, this book is badly in need of some organization and an editor. If you are looking to learn something about controllers, don't look here. If you already know the material and want to hear the opinions of an expert practitioner (but not an expert writer) then this probably will help you.

This is the best book I've seen on applied controls, period. The only reason I didn't give it a full 5 stars is that it often makes jumps in the math, without showing the derivations to make those jumps. I can see leaving out the steps in the main body of the text to avoid cluttering up the presentation, but I'd like to see them put the details in the Appendix.

Beyond that, the book is impressive in its breadth of coverage, and does a fine job going between the fairly practical and fairly analytical. This would make a great grad course just by itself.

PID (proportional-Integral-Derivative) controllers have become the technology of choice in a large percentage of control circuits. The basic concept of a PID controller is that they compare a measured value from a process with a reference setpoint value. The difference is then processed to change the various inputs when can then bring the measured value to desired value.

PID controllers are not new, their development began at least 250 years ago with purely mechanical controllers such as the centrifugal governors on steam engines. Now, of course the new controllers are primarily electronic.

This book covers nearly every aspect of using PID controllers. It combines a mathematical approach to control analysis along with discussion on PID devices and real world examples of problems and their solutions.

The authors are in the Department of Automatic Control at Lund University in Sweden. The book is published by the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society. It is suitable for either classroom or individual use.

The PID controller is the most common solution to practical control problems, especially in process industries. This fact makes extremely important for any individual involved in Process control to have an excellent understanding of its design, tuning and applications.

This book is the last part of a trilogy. The first book, Automatic Tuning of PID Controllers, 1988, which had 6 chapters, gave a short description of the authors early experiences with development of relay auto tuners.
The second book, PID Controllers: Theory, Design, and Tuning, 1995, which has 7 chapters, grew out of the need for a broader coverage of many aspects of PID control. In particular, it reviews many design methods for PID controllers that the authors investigated in connection with their work on auto tuners.
This book, the last of the trilogy, has 13 chapters that deals with essential topics like: Process Models, Controller Design, Controller Tuning, Loop Performance Assessment, Interactions, Predictive Control, Control Paradigms, and implementation.

I am an Industrial Practitioner of Process Control. I have been working for more than 16 years as an Instrumentation, Automation, and Process Safety and Control Engineer for the Oil & Gas Industry. I have found this book to be a useful reference in my day to day activities.

I had this book as a child. It had at the end a tear-out page that was a "pledge" to keep traffic rules and keep your bicycle in good repair, to be signed by the kid and by his parents ("or guardian").
The story is about one child whose bicycle runs away from him to join all the other bikes that were escaping their disrespectful and unsafe owners. I still have that pledge page in an old (very old) photo album. I am going to get a copy for my kids to read.

This book was used as a textbook for a graduate level course I took at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I found it very readable considering the subject.

Using this book for a RADARS course, me and my friends find that this book is really unclear and poorly written. The author likes to twist words around blurring the explanations. The author does presents ideas in a more colloquial style which makes it easier to read, however I find it unhelpful in anyways to understanding concepts. The author should really learn from Jackson (Classical EM) in ways to present concepts precisely. Another problem: The author refers readers to Vol 1 of this series of books, which does not help because at ~ $$$ perbook, students won't be spending the extra $ to get his Vol 1.

I think this book would serve well as a reference for those who have background in RADARS. If you are starting off learning RADARS, this book is not a good idea. Sidenote: Fortunately our professor does a good job complementing this book by adding more explanations and examples.

This was the biggest waist of money I have ever seen, The Figures where omitted along with most tables. Don't Buy!!!