Design and development of controller for Thermoelectric cooler system

The Thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is widely known device which have low coefficient of performance (COP) as compare to the conventional compressed refrigerator. However, it is suitable for portable refrigeration that requires light weight, small and fast control. Therefore, the proportional integral derivatives (PID) control was implemented to control input and output while reducing its power consumption. Mathematical model for TEC was develop base on black box model to get its transfer function. The transfer function consist of ratio output and input that been used for analysis during development of controller. This study is focus on performance of PID controller in simulation and real hardware in order to reduce time constrain. The method proposed is integral of time multiplied absolute value of error (ITAE) criteria to determine the coefficient of PID controller. The finding shows that the lowest temperature is 7 °C and the time taken is around 940 second.