DC Motor Speed Control: A Case between PID Controller and Fuzzy Logic Controller (original) (raw)

Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers have gained wide popularity in the control of DC motors. Their performances, though require some degree of manual tuning by the operator, are still satisfactory but a means of auto-tuning is desirable. In this paper, the performance of a select dc motor controlled by a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller is investigated. An overshoot is observed with an accompanied large settling time thereby confirming the behavior of a typical PID controller. It is therefore a matter of necessity to tune the PID controller in order to obtain the desired performance. On the other hand, a fuzzy logic based controller applied to the dc motor is investigated. With the application of appropriate expert rules, there is no overshoot and the settling time is within the desired value. With fuzzy logic controller, manual tuning is eliminated and intelligent tuning takes the centre stage with satisfactory performance.