Author(s): Tenreiro Machado, J. A. ; Barbosa, Ramiro ; Silva, Manuel ; Figueiredo, Lino ; Jesus, Isabel S. ; Galhano, Alexandra
Date: 2004
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/13120
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Subject(s): Fractional calculus; Control; Modelling; Dynamical systems
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, due to the progress in the area of chaos that revealed subtle relationships with the FC concepts. In the field of dynamical systems theory some work has been carried out but the proposed models and algorithms are still in a preliminary stage of establishment. Having these ideas in mind, the paper discusses a FC perspective in the study of the dynamics and control of several systems.
