The global sliding mode tracking control for a class of variable order fractional differential systems

In this paper, a novel variable order fractional control approach is proposed for tracking control of both of variable order fractional and constant order fractional order system with uncertain and external disturbance terms. In term of the global sliding mode control theory and terminal sliding mode control method, the system states are guaranteed to stay on the switching surface from the initial time, and then converge to the origin by the designed controllers which are continuous input signals. Such controllers avoid the undesirable chattering and remove the effects of uncertain and external disturbance completely. Finally, the comparison between the variable order fraction controller and the constant order fractional controller is given by numerical simulation, furthermore, numerical results on the effects of the tracking control are provided.This paper has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12002194; No.12072178; No.11732005), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No.ZR2020QA037; No.ZR2020MA054), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (No. PGC2018-097198-B-I00) and Fundación Séneca de la Región de Murcia (No.20783/PI/18)

A survey on fractional order control techniques for unmanned aerial and ground vehicles

In recent years, numerous applications of science and engineering for modeling and control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) systems based on fractional calculus have been realized. The extra fractional order derivative terms allow to optimizing the performance of the systems. The review presented in this paper focuses on the control problems of the UAVs and UGVs that have been addressed by the fractional order techniques over the last decade

Adaptive Backstepping Control for Fractional-Order Nonlinear Systems with External Disturbance and Uncertain Parameters Using Smooth Control

In this paper, we consider controlling a class of single-input-single-output (SISO) commensurate fractional-order nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty and external disturbance. Based on backstepping approach, an adaptive controller is proposed with adaptive laws that are used to estimate the unknown system parameters and the bound of unknown disturbance. Instead of using discontinuous functions such as the $\mathrm{sign}$ function, an auxiliary function is employed to obtain a smooth control input that is still able to achieve perfect tracking in the presence of bounded disturbances. Indeed, global boundedness of all closed-loop signals and asymptotic perfect tracking of fractional-order system output to a given reference trajectory are proved by using fractional directed Lyapunov method. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed control method, simulation examples are presented.Comment: Accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems with Minor Revision

Systems control theory applied to natural and synthetic musical sounds

Systems control theory is a far developped field which helps to study stability, estimation and control of dynamical systems. The physical behaviour of musical instruments, once described by dynamical systems, can then be controlled and numerically simulated for many purposes. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to provide the theoretical background on linear system theory, both in continuous and discrete time, mainly in the case of a finite number of degrees of freedom ; second, to give illustrative examples on wind instruments, such as the vocal tract represented as a waveguide, and a sliding flute