Conceptual

Piecewise-Linear PID Control of Nonlinear Systems Tuned by Particle Swarm Optimization

Controls a nonlinear system by approximating its nonlinearity with a simplicial piecewise-linear model (refined by a resolution parameter h), applying a PID controller on the linearized regimes, and tuning the PID gains via Particle Swarm Optimization to minimize ITAE/ISE integral error criteria.