In order to demonstrate the practical phenomena of PID controlled processes to young students, without the burden of all the formula's to start with, I would like to find a Windows oriented program that clearly visualises the various settings, of a virtual proces loop. Is there any program in the market that performs such visualisation?

Your help will be very much appreciated.
Henk, Belgium.
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There are a couple of good Visual basic programs that you can find at http://www.planet-source-code.com do a search for pid loop. They are not compiled though.

 

go to www.controlstation.com

I just took an introductory Process Control couse in chemical engineering that relied heavily on this program...it is simple to understand and yet it can do complex tasks.

Dave Griffin
Brigham Young University

 

http://www.pol.se

Look for LearnWARE and process control.

/Johan Bengtsson

 

One of the best sources for this that I've found is an inexpensive booklet (actually about 90 pages) and companion PID software:

"Controller Tuning and Control Loop Performance - PID without all the Math - A Primer"
David W. St. Clair
Straight-Line Control Company, Inc
3 Bridlebrook Lane
Newark, DE 19711-2003
302-731-4699
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http://members.aol.com/pidcontrol/

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Some months ago I asked the same question and got a PID simulator, a very simple program mailed to me by some coleague in Europe, unfortunately his e-mail is no longer functioning.

I can try to e-mail it to you, it is a little heavy, 2.3 Mb.

Pls. reply.
Alejandro Sánchez.

 

Maybe you could post it somewhere so anyone can just download it? Did it come with a copyright notice authorizing distribution?

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There is an online PID simulator at this link, it comes from the University of Exeter.

http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/Feedback/OvSimForm-gen.html

Francis Lovering
www.controldraw.co.uk

 

i have check this simulator , it 's really good thank you, Iam student and my project is to develop about the same simulator to tune PID and tom connect the pc with the hardware and see the reaction on the software. I would like to have some ideas of the codes in which language to develop such software. Thank you.

 

Mr. Alejandro,
Could you email me this PID simulator. I'll really appreciate it, because I need to do easy demostration about how PID works

Greeting Holidays
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Mr. JOSE GONZALEZ,

I have the source code of PID simulator in VB. You can use it. Hope it will be useful for you.

Happy new year,
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Friends,

Use INTUNE from Controlsoft, Inc. It is a Windows-based tool; very friendly, easy as fill in the blanks. It has all the algorithms embedded. All you have to do is fill in your values and it does the rest.

Regards,
Manmeet

 

Dear Alejandro:
I'm a student from Great Neck South High school and I'm very interested in PID simulator. Can you send me the program and my email is [email protected]. Thank you very much.

 

While not free (but certainly inexpensive), you can find an excellent book and software on PID at:

http://www.straightlinecontrol.com/


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