Pid Control: Tinkercad

Tinkercad Circuits has become a powerful playground for learning Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID)

Advanced Tinkercad PID Techniques

Using the Serial Plotter as an Oscilloscope

Tinkercad’s built-in Serial Plotter (Tools → Serial Plotter) is invaluable. Send setpoint, input, and output as space-separated values. You will see: tinkercad pid control

Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control in Tinkercad allows you to simulate precise system regulation, such as maintaining a constant motor speed or temperature, without risking physical hardware Tinkercad Circuits has become a powerful playground for

Project 1: Building a PID-Controlled DC Motor (Position Control)

Let’s build the classic PID use case: controlling the angular position of a DC motor with a potentiometer as the setpoint. Tinkercad

Proportional (P): Reacts to the current error. If the error is large, the correction is large.

1. Tinkercad. (2022). PID Controller. Retrieved from https://www.tinkercad.com/docs/pid-controller/
2. Ogata, K. (2010). Modern Control Engineering. Prentice Hall.
3. Åström, K. J., & Hägglund, T. (1995). PID Controllers: Theory, Design, and Tuning. Instrument Society of America.

Deep Integration of PID Control in Tinkercad: Simulation, Tuning, and Real-World Constraints

Author: Engineering Simulation Analysis
Platform: Tinkercad Circuits (Autodesk)
Target: Arduino Uno (ATmega328P)

1. Start with P only. Set Ki=0, Kd=0. Increase Kp until the temperature oscillates (bounces up and down). Reduce it by half.
2. Add D. Increase Kd to dampen the oscillations. The Derivative will stop the overshoot. Too much D makes the system slow and jittery.
3. Add I. Increase Ki slowly until the temperature rises exactly to the setpoint without a "gap."

Part 2: Why Tinkercad for PID?

You might ask, "Why simulate PID instead of using a real Arduino?"