The ICFDA’18 International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and its Applications is a specialized conference on fractional-order calculus and its applications. It is a generalization of the integer-order ones. The fractional-order differentiation of arbitrary orders takes into account the memory effect of most systems. The order of the derivatives may also be variable, distributed or complex. Recently, fractional-order calculus became a more accurate tool to describe systems in various fields in mathematics, biology, chemistry, medicine, mechanics, electricity, control theory, economics, and signal and image processing.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
• Automatic Control;
• Biology;
• Electrical Engineering;
• Electronics;
• Electromagnetism;
• Electrochemistry;
• Finance and Economics;
• Fractional Earth Science
• Fractional Filters;
• Fractional Order Modeling and Control in Biomedical Engineering;
• Fractional Phase-Locked Loops;
• Fractional Variational Principles;
• Fractional Transforms and Their Applications;
• Fractional Wavelet Applications to the Composite Drug Signals;
• History of Fractional Calculus;
• Image Processing;
• Mathematical methods;
• Mechanics;
• Physics;
• Robotics;
• Signal Processing;
• Singularities Analysis and Integral Representations for Fractional Differential Systems;
• Special Functions Related to Fractional Calculus;
• Thermal Engineering;
• Viscoelasticity.
Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper (4-6 pages) describing original work. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Papers should include title, abstract, and topic category from the list above or related areas in standard IEEE or IFAC two-column format for consideration as lecture or poster. Both formats have the same value, and presentation method will be chosen for suitability.
All submissions should be made electronically through the 2018 conference website. Students are encouraged to participate on the best student paper award contest. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings subject to advance registration of at least one of the authors.
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The 3rd IFAC Conference on Advances in Proportional-IntegralDerivative Control (PID 2018) will be held Wednesday through Friday, May 9-11, at the Het Pand Convent and Meeting Centre in the heart of Ghent, Belgium – unanimously declared as the most pleasant city of Belgium. The conference venue is near cultural heritage places, historical monuments, restaurants, shopping, and entertainment, just a walk to all of Ghent's known sights.
Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers are undoubtedly the most employed controllers in industry. The PID 2018 is the sequel of PID 2000 in Terassa, Spain and PID 2012 in Brescia, Italy. These last two meetings proved to be great successes and have given a significant impulse in research direction of PID controllers, as seen in the last decade in literature reports. The PID2018 conference is a timely and necessary event fueled by the challenges and perspectives of Industry 4.0 context and the renewed role of the PID controller in this new environment. In addition to provide the current state-of-art in the field, the meeting aims at providing a perspective of the future requirements for PID controllers within Industry 4.0.
The technical program will comprise several types of presentations in regular and invited sessions, tutorial sessions, and special sessions along with workshops and exhibits. This event will feature a parallel track on Internet Based control Education workshop (more details on conference website).
Topics: emphasis will be put on current challenges and new directions in PID control in the context of Industry 4.0. Below you can find a list of preferred topics, not limited to. Contributions with both theoretical and practical relevance are encouraged. Study cases from industry and challenges thereof are welcome.
This book reports on an outstanding research devoted to modeling and control of dynamic systems using fractional-order calculus. It describes the development of model-based control design methods for systems described by fractional dynamic models. More than 300 years had passed since Newton and Leibniz developed a set of mathematical tools we now know as calculus. Ever since then the idea of non-integer derivatives and integrals, universally referred to as fractional calculus, has been of interest to many researchers. However, due to various issues, the usage of fractional-order models in real-life applications was limited. Advances in modern computer science made it possible to apply efficient numerical methods to the computation of fractional derivatives and integrals. This book describes novel methods developed by the author for fractional modeling and control, together with their successful application in real-world process control scenarios.
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This book describes a new type of passive electronic components, called fractal elements, from a theoretical and practical point of view. The authors discuss in detail the physical implementation and design of fractal devices for application in fractional-order signal processing and systems. The concepts of fractals and fractal signals are explained, as well as the fundamentals of fractional calculus. Several implementations of fractional impedances are discussed, along with comparison of their performance characteristics. Details of design, schematics, fundamental techniques and implementation of RC-based fractal elements are provided.
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This work applies a fractional flow model to describe a time-variant behavior of non-Newtonian substances. Specifically, we model the physical mechanism underlying the thixotropic and anti-thixotropic phenomena of non-Newtonian flow. This study investigates the behaviors of cellulose suspensions and SMS pastes under constant shear rate. The results imply that the presented model with only two parameters is adequate to fit experimental data. Moreover, the parameter of fractional order is an appropriate index to characterize the state of given substances. Its value indicates the extent of thixotropy and anti-thixotropy with positive and negative order respectively.
This paper is concerned with controllability of nonlinear fractional delay dynamical systems with delay in state variables. The solution representations of fractional delay differential equations have been established by using the Laplace transform technique and the Mittag—Leffler function. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the controllability criteria of linear fractional delay systems are established. Further sufficient condition for the controllability of nonlinear fractional delay dynamical system are obtained by using the fixed point argument. Examples and numerical simulation are presented to illustrate the results.