Vicente Feliu-Batlle

TL;DR: A fractional order implementation of the classical integral tracking scheme employed in tandem with the IRC scheme to deliver damping and tracking is proposed, resulting in superior closed loop bandwidth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the foundations of fractional control and the main computational tools available for its use and application by the control engineer, making accessible from the very beginning its location in the classical control and a clear understanding on how any control strategy that makes use of the derivative and / or the integral operators (i.e., almost all) can be generalized by considering these operators with not necessarily integer order.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a new strategy to control the temperature of a steel slab reheating furnace based on fractional-order controllers, which is robust to changes in such time delay.

TL;DR: The proposed controller replaces the integral action of the traditional Two-Degrees-of-Freedom PID controller with a double integral action (2DOF-PI2D), which delivers superior tracking performance compared to traditional combined damping and tracking control schemes based on well-reported designs.

TL;DR: The experimental and simulated results have showed that the proposed FIRC can provide a closed-loop bandwidth which spans up to a 95.2% of the first resonant mode of the experimental system, thus improving the bandwidth achieved by classical integer-order IRC implementations.