Fractional-Order Controllers in Electronics and Automation Engineering, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Fractal and Fractional (ISSN 2504-3110). This special issue belongs to the section "Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fractional-order control; power electronic converters; E-mobility; non-linear systems; synchronization; complex networks
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Interests: robust control; chaotic dynamics; fractional calculus; nonlinear dynamics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Fractional calculus has been considered as an alternative to improve the modeling, performance, and efficiency of dynamic systems. Numerous linear and nonlinear control approaches have been proposed and adapted to integrate fractional-order derivative and integral definitions to their control objective to effectively regulate systems' output, focusing on transient and permanent responses, as well as the velocity of regulation and robustness.
Fractional-order control was successfully incorporated into well-known control strategies such as the PID structure, which has been combined with more sophisticated approaches to validate effectiveness and feasibility of noninteger-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 represents an invitation for researchers to explore the potential of fractional-order theory through visionary, radical, and innovative control proposals to help expand the application areas, exploit the advantages, determine the limitations, and above all, clarify the bridges that connect 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, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fractional-order control strategies for energy harvesting/management.
- Batteries fractional-order modeling.
- Analog and digital implementation of fractional-order controllers.
- Fractional-order control strategies developed for electromobility.
- Applications of fractal-order control strategies in biomedicine.
- Fractional-order circuit theory.
- Applications for fractional-order calculus.
- The implementation of fractional-order approximations through circuitry.
- Stability of systems regulated with fractional-order controllers.
Dr. Allan G. Soriano-Sánchez
Dr. Joaquin Alvarez
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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