Abstract
In this paper,a new model free adaptive control method based on self-adjusting PID algorithm(MFAC-SA-PID)is proposed to solve the problem that the pH process with strong nonlinearity is difficult to control near the neutralization point.The MFAC-SA-PID method also solves the problem that the pa-rameters of the model free adaptive control(MFAC)method are not easy to be adjusted and the effect is not obvious by introducing a fuzzy self-adjusting algorithm to adjust the controller parameters.Then the convergence and stability of the MFAC-SA-PID method are proved in this paper.In the simulation study,the control performance of the MFAC-SA-PID method proposed in this paper is compared with the traditional MFAC method and the improved model free adaptive control(IMFAC)method,respectively.The results show that the proposed MFAC-SA-PID method has better control effect on the pH neutrali-zation process.The MFAC-SA-PID control performance also outperforms the traditional MFAC method and IMFAC method when step input disturbances are added,which indicates that the MFAC-SA-PID method has better robustness and stability.