In this paper, a fractional order flight controller design scheme for the altitude control of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) UAV is presented. The altitude control system can be decoupled and identified as a simple first order plus time delay model under some constraints. Based on this identified model, the traditional modified Ziegler-Nichols PI controller can be designed. Meanwhile, the...

Abstract In this paper, an online optimization approach of a fractional-order PID controller based on actor-critic algorithm (FOPID-FOAC) is proposed. The proposed FOPID-FOAC scheme exploits the advantages FOPID and FOAC approaches to improve performance nonlinear systems. built by developing FO-based learning for neural network with adaptive rates. Moreover, FO rectified linear unit (RLU) intr...

There is an increasing interest in dynamic systems and controls of noninteger orders or fractional orders. Clearly, for closed-loop control systems, there are four situations. They are 1) IO (integer order) plant with IO controller; 2) IO plant with FO (fractional order) controller; 3) FO plant with IO controller and 4) FO plant with FO controller. However, from engineering point of view, doing...

Random delays have serious effects in networked control systems, which deteriorate the performance and may even cause instability of the system. Hence a controller which can make the plant stable at large values of delay is always desirable in NCS systems. Our previous work on OFOPI controller showed that fractional order PI controllers have larger jitter margin (maximum value of delay for whic...

The EVs battery has the ability to enhance the balance between the load demand and power generation units. The EV aggregators to manage the random behaviour of EV owners and increasing EVs participation in the ancillary services market are employed. The presence of aggregators could lead to time-varying delay in load frequency control (LFC) schemes. The effects of these delays must be considere...

This paper focuses on designing and implementation of fractional order proportional integral (PIα) flight controller on a small fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It describes mainly the controller design and simulation studies. The basics of UAV flight control are introduced first with a special emphasis on small UAV platforms. Time domain system identification methods are tried on the ...

Design of fractional order PID (FOPID) controller for DC motor is proposed in this paper. A FOPID (PID) is a PID controller whose derivative and integral orders are fractional numbers rather than integers. Design stage of such controller consists of determining six parameters – proportional constant (Kp), integral constant (Ki), derivative constant (Kd), filter time constant (τd), integral orde...