Designing an Optimal Pid Controller For DC Motor Speed Regulation through Smell Agent Optimization Algorithm

Abel E. Airoboman, I. U. Yusuf, T. Tajudeen

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This paper presents an optimal PID controller for speed control of DC motor using Smell Agent Optimization (SAO) Algorithm. DC Motor is an energy converter which transforms electrical energy into mechanical energy used in several industrial applications. A SAO based PID is proposed for optimal tuning of the parameters of the controller to improve speed control of the motor. The SAO uses the phenomenon of smell perception and the intuitive trailing behavior of an agent to identify the source of smell. The integral of time multiplied absolute error (ITAE) is taken as the objective function for obtaining the parameters of the PID controller. It has been observed SAO-PID controller outperforms the GA based PID controller with less settling time, rise time and overshoot. 


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