Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-02-09 Thread Bill Hawkins
Many thanks for the link, Attila. One of the authors of Volume 25 was Nichols of Ziegler-Nichols tuning fame (q.v.) Bill Hawkins -Original Message- From: Attila Kinali Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 4:14 AM And here the link to the pdf's in case anyone is looking:

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-02-09 Thread Attila Kinali
On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:20:39 + Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: If anyone wants to dive into control theory I recommend reading the book Feedback control of dynamic systems by Franklin, Powell and Emami-Naeini. And if you are more of a historical bent, the MIT Radiation Lab

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 20150206153214.4d5f42edbdda4639fee1a...@kinali.ch, Attila Kinali w rites: On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:15:12 + Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: The basic math of PID has been around for about 100 years. The invention of the servo (and synchro/resolver) is what

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-02-06 Thread Attila Kinali
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:15:12 + Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: The basic math of PID has been around for about 100 years. The invention of the servo (and synchro/resolver) is what makes its day... If anyone wants to dive into control theory I recommend reading the book

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-26 Thread Jim Lux
On 1/25/15 1:30 PM, WarrenS via time-nuts wrote: I second Poul-Henning Kamp's comments concerning D-terms, (mostly) as done in the TBolt and likely other GPSDOs. Bear in mind that a PID loop is basically a fairly simple control loop that is easily susceptible to linear analysis. They're

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-26 Thread Didier Juges
Maybe we are getting a little off-topic here, but a very long time ago I was dealing with industrial ovens used to braze ceramics used to make microwave tubes. It was very difficult to maintain the precise temperature ramp up and down, particularly as the oven was not always loaded the same way.

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-26 Thread Jim Lux
On 1/26/15 5:55 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 54c5a270.7090...@earthlink.net, Jim Lux writes: And there's decades, if not centuries, of experience with P, PI and PID controllers in a practical sense. Not quite a century I belive: Only the advent of electronics formalized

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message 5E5E892CF8A2440FBF18FFAD000B65FD@NewComputer, Lee Mushel writes: I'm fairly sure that Jim is right. I never had to worry about PID machine control before the late sixties and by the mid-seventies the concepts were firmly in place and in use. The basic math of PID has been

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-26 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message CAMQqFumOdB4gcFfQjQ_nced0C_U=fbmyofwl7vuxm8wotqg...@mail.gmail.com , Didier Juges writes: In order to automatically compensate for different oven loading (and ambient conditions), the controller injected a very low level random noise over the temperature setting and by

Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-26 Thread Lee Mushel
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 8:21 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] D term (was no subject) On 1/26/15 5:55 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message 54c5a270.7090...@earthlink.net, Jim Lux writes: And there's decades, if not centuries, of experience with P, PI and PID controllers

[time-nuts] D term (was no subject)

2015-01-25 Thread WarrenS via time-nuts
I second Poul-Henning Kamp's comments concerning D-terms, (mostly) as done in the TBolt and likely other GPSDOs. A 'D-term' helps fast loops like a TPLL where you want a high bandwidth with the P gain as high as possible. For slow noisy loops like a cleanup osc or a GPSDO, what helps is a