Smith's Second-Order Method in Process Dynamics

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Consider an overdamped model with a step response represented by , where and are the time constant and the damping coefficient, respectively. It is possible to use the step-response data in order to obtain approximate values for and . Such a method was developed by Smith [1, 2] and uses the times at which the normalized response reaches 20% and 60% (at times and . Indeed, the ratio gives (red curve) and (blue curve). It is found that the approximate values of the time constant and the damping coefficient ( and ) match the exact values, which are selected by the user, perfectly. A separate plot (select "output") shows the exact response of the second-order process to a unit step, as well as the values of and , identified by the blue and red dots.

Contributed by: Housam Binous, Mohammad Mozahar Hossain, and Ahmed Bellagi (November 2015)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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[1] C. L. Smith, Digital Computer Process Control, Scranton: Intext Educational Publishers, 1972.

[2] D. E. Seborg, T. F. Edgar, D. A. Mellichamp, and F. J. Doyle III, Process Dynamics and Control, 3rd ed., New York: Wiley, 2011.



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