TANK LEVEL CONTROL SYSTEM VIA ARDUINO

Abstract

Tank level control is very relevant in the industry, in addition to being widely used in residential applications. To assist in the control of systems, the Arduino platform can be used. Such a platform has stood out in the areas of computing and electronics for its ease of programming and has become an essential tool in the preparation of basic engineering projects. In this work, the Arduino platform was used to control the liquid level of a laboratory scale tank system. For this control, an on-off controller was implemented. A simulation was also carried out in Matlab with the objective of verifying the behavior of a system subject to different basic control actions. Through the simulation in Matlab, the particularities of the main control actions were verified, which allowed us to observe that the PID controller generates the best result and, therefore, is the most used in industrial control systems worldwide.