Control theory

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LyingCake@feddit.org · 18 pts · 126d (1 reply)

Finally a real science meme I'm not smart enough to understand!

My rule of thumb is, if I understand it, it's too simple for this community.

nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 126d

It's really an engineering meme so we gotta keep this on the dl so all the biologists don't jump us

RedBauble@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 126d

Control engineering student here. This is accurate and goes straight to the uni friends group chat. I love it.

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 126d (2 replies)

This was my weakest subject, I found it fascinating but my math was just not good enough for it.

Hopefully someone here has some interesting resources for this stuff, I would honestly love to integrate things like PIDs where they absolutely don’t belong in my bullshit hobby procrastination projects.

fleck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 126d (1 reply)

PIDs for can be very fun. And essentially its just 5 or so lines of code, which is something I wish they told us in uni (instead, it was mostly theory, as in the meme). I recently built a kiln which goes to 1000-something °C with a PID controller and I just set the parameters by vibes, not even some formal method. And it just works. So here is my resource: The (bit messy) controller code for my oven The code is obviously a bit more than those few lines, but I just wanted to say that the implementation is very simple, which I would have liked to know when I started out with this.

Edit: just found a bug after looking at the code again haha, so thank you :D

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 126d

Yeah I’ve been involved in stuff on that level by pulling in a library in a university project. But there were higher level research projects going on where they were going into real nitty gritty fine control, I think they had a control model with an obscene number of degrees (as in xth order physical model implemented as a PPIIIIDDD system or whatever). That was a little intuitive since there was a physical process that you can observe.

But the theory is definitely something I’d like to at least understand a little

Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 126d (1 reply)

Fuck matlab !

mkwt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 126d

I highly recommend Python Control Systems Library, python-control on PyPi, as a replacement for the control systems toolbox.