Severely dead-time-dominant loops are particularly challenging because a control loop cannot see and start to correct for an unmeasured disturbance until after one dead time. Complete correction takes at least two dead times. Also, such loops are more susceptible to noise, since there is not a major process time constant acting as a filter. Many tuning methods break down and model-based methods are prone to failure. Here is the lowdown and some workable solutions.
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