TY - JOUR AU - Nippert, Charles AU - Coburn, Rebecca AU - Shea, Brendan AU - Roth, Michael AU - Harrell, Clinton AU - Owusu, Edward PY - 2013/04/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Adaptive Control of a Non-Cylindrical Tank JF - International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE) JA - Int. J. Onl. Eng. VL - 9 IS - 2 SE - Short Papers DO - 10.3991/ijoe.v9i2.2546 UR - https://online-journals.org/index.php/i-joe/article/view/2546 SP - pp. 50-52 AB - A conical tank in which the diameter changes with the tank height, allows the use of feedback control used in complex nonlinear systems, such as adaptive control. This project modified an existing system of two interacting tanks by inserting a removable solid cone into one of the tanks. This modification created two new nonlinear configurations, one of which had a discontinuity. Optimal controller settings at different depths of liquid were found by minimizing the integral of the absolute error (IAE). These settings were used by an adaptive PID controller at a different settings, comparing the results to a conventional PID tuned to that setting. ER -