Application of fractional calculus in engineering

• Author(s): Machado, J. A. Tenreiro ; Jesus, Isabel S. ; Barbosa, Ramiro S. ; Silva, Manuel F. ; Reis, Cecília
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/4199
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English

Description

Fractional Calculus (FC) goes back to the beginning of the theory of differential calculus. Nevertheless, the application of FC just emerged in the last two decades. It has been recognized the advantageous use of this mathematical tool in the modelling and control of many dynamical systems. Having these ideas in mind, this paper discusses a FC perspective in the study of the dynamics and control of several systems. The paper investigates the use of FC in the fields of controller tuning, legged robots, electrical systems and digital circuit synthesis.