In this paper, soft variable structure control of fractional order systems is proposed for achieving high regulation rates and short settling times. Using the appropriate fractional order Lyapunov approach, a controller based on continuous fractional switch are designed to achieve high control performance. Due to the alleviation of chattering phenomenon soft VSC that is proposed for fractional order systems are quite useful in future for the practical systems. © 2014 Chinese Automatic Control Society and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.

Bijnan Bandyopadhyay

Department of Electrical Engineering

IIT Jodhpur

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Journal	Asian Journal of Control
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN	15618625