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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.
It’s really an engineering meme so we gotta keep this on the dl so all the biologists don’t jump us
Control engineering student here. This is accurate and goes straight to the uni friends group chat. I love it.
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.
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
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
Fuck matlab !
I highly recommend Python Control Systems Library, python-control on PyPi, as a replacement for the control systems toolbox.