Fractional-Order Controllers in Electronics and Automation Engineering
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 4766
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractional-order control; power electronic converters; E-mobility; non-linear systems; synchronization; complex networks
Interests: non-linear systems; synchronization; non-linear control; complex network; chaos
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fractional calculus has been considered as an alternative to improve the modeling, performance, and efficiency of linear and non-linear systems. Focusing on transient and permanent responses as well as the velocity of regulation and robustness, many control strategies have been adapted to integrate the definition of fractional-order derivatives/integrals to the control objective.
Fractional-order control was successfully integrated into well-known control strategies such as the PID structure, which has been combined with more sophisticated approaches, resulting in the validation of the effectiveness and feasibility of non-integer order techniques. To date, some theory and practical results have been reported, but a systematic procedure to integrate a fractional-order approach into a control strategy and its implementation are not clear enough.
Therefore, this Special Issue is an invitation for researchers to explore the potential of fractional-order theory through visionary, radical, innovative, and ingenious control proposals to help expand the application areas, exploit the advantages, determine the limitations, and above all, clarify the bridge that connects the theory with its implementation.
Thus, the aim of this Special Issue is to motivate the development of advanced research on the theory, design, and experimental validation of fractional-order control strategies. Thus, topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Fractional-order control strategies for energy harvesting/storage/management;
- Analog and digital implementation of fractal-order controllers;
- Fractional-order control strategies developed for electromobility;
- Applications of fractal-order control strategies in biomedicine;
- Fractal-order circuit theory;
- The implementation of fractional-order approximations through circuitry.
Dr. Allan G. Soriano-Sánchez
Dr. Didier López-Mancilla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fractional-order calculus
- fractional-order control
- fractional-order approximations
- fractional-order implementation tuning of
- fractional-order controllers
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