Diseño y construcción de una planta de tres vasos comunicantes e implementación de un sistema de control automático de nivel de agua de tipo pid (proporcionalintegral- derivativo) desarrollado por el método clásico en matlab

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to present the new plant for the Automatic Control Laboratory at FIEC, consisting on a three communicating vessels system, describing its design and building, including the used criteria in the materials selection for its construction, the equipment selection to be installed, and the elements selection to be used for control strategies, protection and security of these equipment during plant operation. It is also intended to show the plant behavior by developing an automatic water level control, by means of a PID-type Controller, developed by the classic method using MATLAB and its SIMULINK tool. With the results obtained once the controller has been implemented and adjusted on the plant, the four most known and used performance indices are described, calculated and compared, which constitute a quantitative method to determine the quality of a PID Controller, checking the level of effectiveness of its control task.