A comparison of adaptive PID methodologies controlling a DC motor with a varying load

This work addresses the problem of controlling unknown and time varying plants for industrial applications. To deal with such problem several Self-Tuning Controllers with a Proportional Integral and Derivative (PID) structure have been chosen. The selected controllers are based on different methodologies, and some use implicit identification techniques (Single Neuron and Support Vector Machine) while the others use explicit identification (Dahlin, Pole placement, Deadbeat and Ziegler-Nichols) based in the Least Squares Method. The controllers were tested on a real DC motor with a varying load. The results have shown that all the tested methods were able to properly control an unknown plant with varying dynamics.