This paper presents the application of Fractional Order PID controller as a supplementary controller to improve the dynamics of LFC in multi area deregulated power system. FOPID is a PID controller whose derivative and integral orders are of fractional rather than integer. The extension of derivative and integration order from integer to fractional order provides more flexibility in design of t...

The paper presents development of a new tuning method for fractional order PID controller for the systems which have integer order transfer functions. All the parameters of the controller, namely proportional gain kp, integral gain ki, derivative gain kd, fractional order of integrator λ and fractional order of differentiator μ can be obtained by using this method. It is clearly shown that the ...

In order to optimize the parameters of fractional order PID controller of complex system, an adaptive particle swarm optimization (PSO) method is proposed to realize the parameters adjustment. In this algorithm, the tuning particle population is divided into three subgroups firstly, and through introducing the swarm-aggregation degree factor and the evolution speed factor of particle, dynamical...

This paper presents the application of a direct Fractional Order Model Reference Adaptive Controller (FOMRAC) to an Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR). A direct FOMRAC is a direct Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC), whose controller parameters are adjusted using fractional order differential equations. Four realizations of the FOMRAC were designed in this work, each one considering differen...

Particle Swarm Optimization technique offers optimal or suboptimal solution to multidimensional rough objective functions. In this paper, this optimization technique is used for designing fractional order PID controllers that give better performance than their integer order counterparts. Controller synthesis is based on required peak overshoot and rise time specifications. The characteristic eq...

Hard-disk drives (HDD‘s) are widely used data storage medium for computers and many other data processing devices. The servo mechanism in HDD plays an important role in high performance requirements of HDD‘s. Gain variations present in hard ware components of HDD‘s affects the consistent track following performances. So the servo system needs to improve in track following and robustness perform...

This paper presents the implementation of Fractional Order PID controller as a supplementary controller to improve the dynamics of Load Frequency Control in an interconnected Power System. FOPID is a PID controller whose integral and derivative orders are of non-integer rather than integer. The extension of integration and derivative order from integer to fractional order provides more flexibil...

Cantilever beams have an important role in day to day life in bridges, towers, buildings and aircraft wings, making active vibration suppression a highly researched field. The purpose of this paper is to detail the design of fractional order PID controllers for smart beams. A novel tuning procedure is proposed based on solving a set of nonlinear complex equations that directly aim at reducing t...

In this study, the usefulness of a fractional order PID (proportional plus integral plus derivative)-type controller is investigated on the control of an electromechanical control actuation system. In this extent, the mathematical model of an electromechanically-actuated control actuation system considered is obtained in the continuous time domain first and then a control system with an integer...