Comparative Study of PID, DMC, and Fuzzy PD+I Controllers in a Control Laboratory Kit

The validation of theoretical concepts in the control area through practice is essential in mechatronics engineering. It is common to have specialized equipment and processing plants in engineering faculties to validate the theoretical concepts. A critical factor that has been identified as a need in recent years is the possibility of providing the student with tools and equipment to perform practice activities remotely. As a solution to the previously mentioned challenge, a low-cost control kit was designed that can be used by students and lecturers remotely. The main goal of this study is to perform a comparative work between a standard controller and three different configurations of intelligent controllers to evaluate the behavior of the developed laboratory control kit and the performance of the controllers.