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PID controller

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A proportional–integral–derivative controller (PID controller or three term controller) is a control loop feedback mechanism widely used in industrial control systems and a variety of other applications requiring continuously modulated control. [1]

102 relations: Adolf Hurwitz, Analog-to-digital converter, Angular velocity, Bang–bang control, Biasing, Causal system, Centrifugal governor, Christiaan Huygens, Classification of discontinuities, Compact controller, Computer-automated design, Concentration, Control loop, Control theory, Control valve, Cruise control, Current loop, Damping ratio, Deadband, Derivative, Digital-to-analog converter, Discrete time and continuous time, Disk storage, Distributed control system, Divergence (computer science), Edward Routh, Electric current, Electric motor, Electrical equipment in hazardous areas, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Fail-safe, Feed forward (control), Feedback, Field-programmable gate array, Finite difference, Force, Fuzzy logic, Gain scheduling, Harold Stephen Black, Helmsman, Hunting oscillation, HVAC control system, Industrial control system, Initialization (programming), Instability, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Integral, Integral windup, Jacques Charles François Sturm, James Clerk Maxwell, ..., James Watt, John G. Ziegler, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Karl Johan Åström, Laplace transform, Lead–lag compensator, Licentiate (degree), Low-pass filter, Lund University, Marginal stability, Median filter, Microcontroller, Millstone, Nathaniel B. Nichols, Nicolas Minorsky, Noise, Nonlinear system, Nozzle and flapper, Nyquist stability criterion, Optimal control, Oscillation, Overshoot (signal), Pendulum-and-hydrostat control, Position (vector), Power supply, Pressure, Process variable, Programmable logic controller, Proportional control, Relay, Rise time, Robotic arm, Russian Americans, Scilab, Seismometer, Setpoint (control system), Settling time, Simulink, Sine wave, Speed, Speeds and feeds, State observer, Stiction, Temperature, Transfer function, USS New Mexico (BB-40), Volumetric flow rate, Weight, Weight function, Whitehead torpedo, Windmill, Ziegler–Nichols method. Expand index (52 more) »

Adolf Hurwitz

Adolf Hurwitz (26 March 1859 – 18 November 1919) was a German mathematician who worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.

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Analog-to-digital converter

In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal.

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Angular velocity

In physics, the angular velocity of a particle is the rate at which it rotates around a chosen center point: that is, the time rate of change of its angular displacement relative to the origin.

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Bang–bang control

In control theory, a bang–bang controller (2 step or on–off controller), also known as a hysteresis controller, is a feedback controller that switches abruptly between two states.

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Biasing

Biasing in electronics means establishing predetermined voltages or currents at various points of an electronic circuit for the purpose of establishing proper operating conditions in electronic components.

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Causal system

In control theory, a causal system (also known as a physical or nonanticipative system) is a system where the output depends on past and current inputs but not future inputs—i.e., the output y(t_) depends on only the input x(t) for values of t \le t_.

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Centrifugal governor

A centrifugal governor is a specific type of governor with a feedback system that controls the speed of an engine by regulating the amount of fuel (or working fluid) admitted, so as to maintain a near-constant speed, irrespective of the load or fuel-supply conditions.

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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens (Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time and a major figure in the scientific revolution.

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Classification of discontinuities

Continuous functions are of utmost importance in mathematics, functions and applications.

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Compact controller

A compact controller is a generic name given to a small autonomous controller which can control one or several control loops.

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Computer-automated design

Design Automation usually refers to electronic design automation, or Design Automation which is a Product Configurator.

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Concentration

In chemistry, concentration is the abundance of a constituent divided by the total volume of a mixture.

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Control loop

A control loop is the fundamental building block of industrial control systems.

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Control theory

Control theory in control systems engineering deals with the control of continuously operating dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines.

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Control valve

A control valve is a valve used to control fluid flow by varying the size of the flow passage as directed by a signal from a controller.

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Cruise control

Cruise control (sometimes known as speed control or autocruise, or tempomat in some countries) is a system that automatically controls the speed of a motor vehicle.

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Current loop

In electrical signalling an analog current loop is used where a device must be monitored or controlled remotely over a pair of conductors.

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Damping ratio

Damping is an influence within or upon an oscillatory system that has the effect of reducing, restricting or preventing its oscillations.

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Deadband

A deadband (sometimes called a neutral zone or dead zone) is a band of input values in the domain of a transfer function in a control system or signal processing system where the output is zero (the output is 'dead' - no action occurs).

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Derivative

The derivative of a function of a real variable measures the sensitivity to change of the function value (output value) with respect to a change in its argument (input value).

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Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.

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Discrete time and continuous time

In mathematics and in particular mathematical dynamics, discrete time and continuous time are two alternative frameworks within which to model variables that evolve over time.

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Disk storage

Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks.

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Distributed control system

A distributed control system (DCS) is a computerised control system for a process or plant usually with a large number of control loops, in which autonomous controllers are distributed throughout the system, but there is central operator supervisory control.

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Divergence (computer science)

In computer science, a computation is said to diverge if it does not terminate or terminates in an (unobservable) exceptional state.

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Edward Routh

Edward John Routh FRS (20 January 1831 – 7 June 1907), was an English mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century.

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Electric current

An electric current is a flow of electric charge.

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Electric motor

An electric motor is an electrical machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy.

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Electrical equipment in hazardous areas

In electrical engineering, hazardous locations (sometimes abbreviated to HazLoc, pronounced Haz·Lōk) are defined as places where fire or explosion hazards may exist due to flammable gases, flammable liquid–produced vapors, combustible liquid–produced vapors, combustible dusts, or ignitable fibers/flyings present in the air in quantities sufficient to produce explosive or ignitable mixtures.

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Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Sr. (October 12, 1860 – June 16, 1930) was an American inventor and entrepreneur, most famous as co-inventor, with Herman Anschütz-Kaempfe of the gyrocompass and as founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company.

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Fail-safe

A fail-safe in engineering is a design feature or practice that in the event of a specific type of failure, inherently responds in a way that will cause no or minimal harm to other equipment, the environment or to people.

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Feed forward (control)

Feed-forward, sometimes written feedforward, is a term describing an element or pathway within a control system that passes a controlling signal from a source in its external environment, often a command signal from an external operator, to a load elsewhere in its external environment.

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Feedback

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop.

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Field-programmable gate array

A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing hence "field-programmable".

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Finite difference

A finite difference is a mathematical expression of the form.

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Force

In physics, a force is any interaction that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object.

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Fuzzy logic

Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic in which the truth values of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1.

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Gain scheduling

In control theory, gain scheduling is an approach to control of non-linear systems that uses a family of linear controllers, each of which provides satisfactory control for a different operating point of the system.

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Harold Stephen Black

Harold Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927.

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Helmsman

A helmsman or helm is a person who steers a ship, sailboat, submarine, other type of maritime vessel, or spacecraft.

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Hunting oscillation

Hunting oscillation is a self-oscillation, usually unwanted, about an equilibrium.

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HVAC control system

HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) equipment needs a control system to regulate the operation of a heating and/or air conditioning system.

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Industrial control system

Industrial control system (ICS) is a general term that encompasses several types of control systems and associated instrumentation used for industrial process control.

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Initialization (programming)

In computer programming, initialization is the assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable.

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Instability

In numerous fields of study, the component of instability within a system is generally characterized by some of the outputs or internal states growing without bounds.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a professional association with its corporate office in New York City and its operations center in Piscataway, New Jersey.

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Integral

In mathematics, an integral assigns numbers to functions in a way that can describe displacement, area, volume, and other concepts that arise by combining infinitesimal data.

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Integral windup

Integral windup, also known as integrator windup or reset windup, refers to the situation in a PID feedback controller where a large change in setpoint occurs (say a positive change) and the integral terms accumulates a significant error during the rise (windup), thus overshooting and continuing to increase as this accumulated error is unwound (offset by errors in the other direction).

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Jacques Charles François Sturm

Jacques Charles François Sturm ForMemRS (29 September 1803 – 15 December 1855) was a French mathematician.

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James Clerk Maxwell

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish scientist in the field of mathematical physics.

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James Watt

James Watt (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.

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John G. Ziegler

John G. Ziegler (August 21, 1909 – December 9, 1997) was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory.

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Josiah Willard Gibbs

Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903) was an American scientist who made important theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

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Karl Johan Åström

Karl Johan Åström (born August 5, 1934) is a Swedish control theorist, who has made contributions to the fields of control theory and control engineering, computer control and adaptive control.

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Laplace transform

In mathematics, the Laplace transform is an integral transform named after its discoverer Pierre-Simon Laplace.

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Lead–lag compensator

A lead–lag compensator is a component in a control system that improves an undesirable frequency response in a feedback and control system.

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Licentiate (degree)

A licentiate is a degree below that of a PhD given by universities in some countries.

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Low-pass filter

A low-pass filter (LPF) is a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.

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Lund University

Lund University (Lunds universitet) is a public university, consistently ranking among the world's top 100 universities.

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Marginal stability

In the theory of dynamical systems and control theory, a linear time-invariant system is marginally stable if it is neither asymptotically stable nor unstable.

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Median filter

The median filter is a nonlinear digital filtering technique, often used to remove noise from an image or signal.

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Microcontroller

A microcontroller (MCU for microcontroller unit, or UC for μ-controller) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit.

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Millstone

Millstones or mill stones are stones used in gristmills, for grinding wheat or other grains.

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Nathaniel B. Nichols

Nathaniel B. Nichols (1914–1997) was an American control engineer who made significant contributions to the field of control theory.

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Nicolas Minorsky

Nicolas Minorsky (born Nikolai Fyodorovich Minorsky, Николай Федорович Минорский;, Korcheva, Russian Empire – 31 July 1970, Italy) was a Russian American control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist.

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Noise

Noise is unwanted sound judged to be unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing.

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Nonlinear system

In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input.

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Nozzle and flapper

The nozzle and flapper mechanism is a displacement type detector which converts mechanical movement into a pressure signal, by covering the orifice of a nozzle with a flat plate called the flapper.

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Nyquist stability criterion

In control theory and stability theory, the Nyquist stability criterion, discovered by Swedish-American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932, on is a graphical technique for determining the stability of a dynamical system.

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Optimal control

Optimal control theory deals with the problem of finding a control law for a given system such that a certain optimality criterion is achieved.

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Oscillation

Oscillation is the repetitive variation, typically in time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of equilibrium) or between two or more different states.

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Overshoot (signal)

In signal processing, control theory, electronics, and mathematics, overshoot is the occurrence of a signal or function exceeding its target.

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Pendulum-and-hydrostat control

Pendulum-and-hydrostat control is a control mechanism developed originally for depth control of the Whitehead Torpedo.

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Position (vector)

In geometry, a position or position vector, also known as location vector or radius vector, is a Euclidean vector that represents the position of a point P in space in relation to an arbitrary reference origin O. Usually denoted x, r, or s, it corresponds to the straight-line from O to P. The term "position vector" is used mostly in the fields of differential geometry, mechanics and occasionally vector calculus.

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Power supply

A power supply is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load.

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Pressure

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.

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Process variable

A process variable, process value or process parameter is the current measured value of a particular part of a process which is being monitored or controlled.

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Programmable logic controller

A programmable logic controller (PLC), or programmable controller is an industrial digital computer which has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, or robotic devices, or any activity that requires high reliability control and ease of programming and process fault diagnosis.

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Proportional control

Proportional control, in engineering and process control, is a type of linear feedback control system in which a correction is applied to the controlled variable which is proportional to the difference between the desired value (set point, SP) and the measured value (process value, PV).

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Relay

A relay is an electrically operated switch.

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Rise time

In electronics, when describing a voltage or current step function, rise time is the time taken by a signal to change from a specified low value to a specified high value.

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Robotic arm

A robotic arm is a type of mechanical arm, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm; the arm may be the sum total of the mechanism or may be part of a more complex robot.

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Russian Americans

Russian Americans are Americans who trace their ancestry to Russia, the Russian Empire, or the former Soviet Union.

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Scilab

Scilab is a free and open-source, cross-platform numerical computational package and a high-level, numerically oriented programming language.

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Seismometer

A seismometer is an instrument that measures motion of the ground, caused by, for example, an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or the use of explosives.

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Setpoint (control system)

In cybernetics and control theory, a setpoint (also set point, set-point) is the desired or target value for an essential variable, or process value of a system.

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Settling time

In control theory the settling time of a dynamical system such as an amplifier or other output device is the time elapsed from the application of an ideal instantaneous step input to the time at which the amplifier output has entered and remained within a specified error band.

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Simulink

Simulink, developed by MathWorks, is a graphical programming environment for modeling, simulating and analyzing multidomain dynamical systems.

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Sine wave

A sine wave or sinusoid is a mathematical curve that describes a smooth periodic oscillation.

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Speed

In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity (the rate of change of its position); it is thus a scalar quantity.

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Speeds and feeds

The phrase speeds and feeds or feeds and speeds refers to two separate velocities in machine tool practice, cutting speed and feed rate.

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State observer

In control theory, a state observer is a system that provides an estimate of the internal state of a given real system, from measurements of the input and output of the real system.

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Stiction

Stiction is the static friction that needs to be overcome to enable relative motion of stationary objects in contact.

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Temperature

Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.

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Transfer function

In engineering, a transfer function (also known as system function or network function) of an electronic or control system component is a mathematical function giving the corresponding output value for each possible value of the input to the device.

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USS New Mexico (BB-40)

USS New Mexico (BB-40) was a battleship in service with the United States Navy from 1918 to 1946.

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Volumetric flow rate

In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics and hydrometry, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, rate of fluid flow or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually represented by the symbol (sometimes). The SI unit is m3/s (cubic metres per second).

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Weight

In science and engineering, the weight of an object is related to the amount of force acting on the object, either due to gravity or to a reaction force that holds it in place.

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Weight function

A weight function is a mathematical device used when performing a sum, integral, or average to give some elements more "weight" or influence on the result than other elements in the same set.

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Whitehead torpedo

The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed.

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Windmill

A windmill is a mill that converts the energy of wind into rotational energy by means of vanes called sails or blades.

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Ziegler–Nichols method

The Ziegler–Nichols tuning method is a heuristic method of tuning a PID controller.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller

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