The recent FO variant of classic controller design includes an order parameter that changes the control effect of this operation. Lord Kelvin’s brother James Thomson invented a mechanical component with a constantly spinning disk and a ball which accomplishes this operation in mechanical computers. One control effect can be found using this operation applied to the (*) past values of the setpoint minus process variable error. This operation can be accomplished by an op-amp circuit which feeds its voltage output back to its input through a feedback capacitor. This is the common operation applied to the exponential kernel that changes analysis of a circuit between the frequency and time domains in the Laplace and Fourier transforms. For 10 points, name this operation which for PID controllers is represented by the I and is the opposite of differentiation. ■END■
ANSWER: integration [accept integrator; prompt on Laplace transform or Fourier transform until “Laplace” is read by asking “what mathematical operation is done in that transform?”]
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