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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2010 Jan;57(1):155–166. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2029703

TABLE I.

PID Variables

Variable Definition
i Time index
Δt Sampling interval
T(i) Measured temperature
TSP(i) Set point temperature
e(i) Temperature error
KP Proportional gain
KI Integral gain
KD Differential gain
KWU Windup gain
DF(i) Duty factor (control variable)
DFMIN Minimum duty factor
DFMAX Maximum duty factor
DFTH Thresholded duty factor