The AutotunerPID Toolkit mainly has a didactical purpose, allowing to:
experiment with well established tuning methods, and gain familiarity with them;
understand the various phases that form an autotuning procedure, and the relationships among them,
obtaining the capability of conducting an autotuning session effectively and consciously;
learn to select a particular autotuning method based on the characteristics of the process;
compare the results of different methods a posteriori, both from the standpoint
of the obtained results and of the experiment (i.e., considering facts like
the tuning time, the process upset, and so forth), learning to diagnose the
results of a tuning session and, when possible, to obtain from it some further
process information.
Using this Guide
This guide contains tutorial sections that are designed to help you become familiar with general concepts of PID
qautotuning and with using the AutotunerPID Toolkit with Matlab® and Simulink®,
as well as a reference section for finding more information on particular functions:
Examples presents example applications of the AutotunerPID Toolkit.
Function Reference describes each function's operation, parameters, and characteristics.
Use this guide in conjunction with the software to learn about the powerful features of the AutotunerPID Toolkit.
Note
The User's Guide documentation for the Autotuner PID Toolkit assumes that you are familiar with the basics of Matlab and Simulink.
See the Matlab or Simulink documentation for more information.
