Stabilization of fractional-order unstable delay systems by fractional-order controllers

In the present paper stabilization of a class of fractional-order unstable delay systems by fractional-order controllers is investigated. To derive the sufficient conditions for stability, an analysis based on the Nyquist stability criterion has been adopted. The analysis is carried out with fractional-order [proportional-integral] and [proportional-derivative] controllers to obtain the upper bound for the time delay. Furthermore, the paper proposes the conditions on the parameters of the controllers which must be fulfilled in order to have a stabilized process. Two illustrated examples using fractional-order controllers are presented for demonstrating the proposed approach.