Hello,

There are a lot of different ways to tune PID controllers. Some primitive approaches are listed in http://www.csimn.com/CSI_pages/PIDforDummies.html and more intelligent ways are using optimization approaches that are not always necessary but work most of the times. For example you can read the following paper on this approach in the attached paper.

Hope it helps,

Afshin

Article Evolutionary algorithms based parameters tuning of PID controller

thank you Afshin Rahimi

Hi,

Check out what we did in the following paper. We used ANN for tuning the PID parameters.

Conference Paper Control of an active magnetic bearing with multi-layer perce...

Surendra Bhosale, but ZIELER-NICOL (Z-N) method is just for tuning , P, PI or PID ,not for ID or PD controller.

thanks Michel Owayjan

what are the tuning methods available for PD controllers?

There a lots of rules and formulas available. O'Dwyer has papers providing extensive list of these rules and formulas, One is attached here for your reference. Hope it's useful.