Fractional Control Systems and Estimation: Control, State Observers and Parameter Estimation, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, research on fractional order operators has been conducted in both theoretical and practical applications, covering different fields such as modeling, identification, estimation, observer design, control, and signal processing, etc. The interest in using fractional order tools has increased rapidly over the last few decades, with reliable results being obtained for fractional order systems and signals in terms of transient behavior, stability, convergence, and boundedness viewpoints, allowing a comparison of these techniques with those based on integer order derivative and integral operators, expanding the horizons of these topics.

This Special Issue is devoted to new theories and applications, making use of fractional order operators and comparisons with their integer order counterparts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Fractional order control (adaptive and non-adaptive) theory and practice;
• Fractional systems analysis and design
• Fractional order observers and estimators;
• Fractional parameter estimation
• Robust fractional order control
• FO PID controllers
• Fractional order sliding mode control and applications;
• Stability of fractional order differential equations and systems;
• Back-stepping fractional order control (adaptive and non-adaptive systems);
• Fractional differential or difference equations
• Mathematical and numerical methods of fractional order control systems
• Theory and Applications of fractional order identification and control

Dr. Gustavo Ceballos-Benavides
Prof. Dr. Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud
Guest Editors

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