PID Controls Lab Class

Schedule TBA
Cal Maritime Academy, Vallejo

The Northern California Section of ISA will be offering an eight-hour course on Basic Control Loop Tuning on (date TBA) from 8:30 a.m to 4 p.m, at the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo.  This will be a hands-on course involving laboratory demonstrations of working control loops.

Hands on work will include single and cascade loop tuning. Topics will cover tuning criteria such as minimum overshoot, shortest settling time, and robustness. Different approaches such as the classic Ziegler-Nichols quarter amplitude, Trial-and Error as well as Auto tuning will be explored. Prerequisites are a solid knowledge of the functions of the PID controller (i.e. proportional band and gain) and some process dynamics (time constant, lead-lag) etc.

If you have any questions about the class, please contact Robbie Jackson at
(707) 654-1199 or rjackson@csum.edu

Rev.: 1/4/09 GJG