I NTERNATI ONAL J OURNAL OF COMPUTER ENGI NEERI NG AND

COMPUTER APPLI CATI ONS

ISSN 0974-4983, IJCECA
April 2010 J une 2010
SUMMER EDITION 2010
PP [63-73], Volume 03, Issue No 01,
Mr.Atal.A.Kumar, Mr.K.S.Arun & Dr.N.Anantharaman
Scientific Engineering Research Corporation
http://serc.org.in

SpeedControlofARealTimeD.CShuntMotorusingPSOBasedTuningofAPIDController;
Dr.S.M.Girirajkumar,Mr.Atal.A.Kumar,Mr.K.S.Arun&Dr.N.Anantharaman;PP[6373]

SPEED CONTROL OF A REAL TIME D.C SHUNT MOTOR
USING PSO BASED TUNING OF A PID CONTROLLER

Dr.S.M.Girirajkumar
Assistant professor,Department of EIE,
SASTRA University,Thanjavur
India-613402
Email: smgirirajkumar@gmail.com
Mr.Atal.A.Kumar
Student, Mechatronics
SASTRA University, Thanjavur
India-613402
Email :atalakumar10@gmail.com
Mr.K.S.Arun
Student
SASTRA University,Thanjavur
India-613402
Dr.N.Anantharaman
Professor, Department of chemical engineering,
National Institute of Tiruchirapalli
India-620015
Email :naraman@nitt.edu

ABSTRACT
The proposed work deals with optimal tuning of a Proportional-Integral-Derivative
(PID) controller for speed control of a DC shunt motor. PID controllers are widely used
in industrial plants because of their simplicity and robustness. Industrial processes
are subjected to variation in parameters and parameter perturbations, which when
significant makes the system unstable. So the control engineers are on look for
automatic tuning procedures. The performance of Ziegler-Nichols method, one of the
widely accepted conventional methods has been compared and analysed with the
intelligent tuning technique called the Particle swarm optimisation algorithm (PSO).
The results establish that tuning the PID controller using PSO technique which comes
under evolutionary programming has proved its excellence in giving better results by
improving the steady state characteristics and performance indices.