Sliding Mode Control of Fractional-order Systems

Dr. Karimi received the B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His research interests are in the areas of control systems/theory, mechatronics, networked control systems, intelligent control systems, signal processing, vibration control, ground vehicles, structural control, wind turbine control and cutting processes. He is an Editorial Board Member for some international journals and several Technical Committee. Prof. Karimi has been presented a number of national and international awards, including Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship Award (in Germany), JSPS Research Award (in Japan), DAAD Research Award (in Germany), August-Wilhelm-Scheer Award (in Germany) and been invited as visiting professor at a number of universities in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, Spain, China, Korea, Japan, India. Xin Meng joined the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, China in 2023. Dr Meng’s research interests are in the areas of sliding mode control, fractional-order systems, event-triggered control, etc. He has published more than 10 papers, and some of them are published in top journals, such as ISA Trans., Neurocomputing, etc. He also serves as an active reviewer for more than 10 international journal. Dr Jiang is based at the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou, China, where he is an associate professor. Drs Jiang’s research interests are in the areas of stochastic systems, networked control systems, sliding mode control and stability theory, etc. He has published more than 60 papers.

• 1. Introduction2. Theoretical Foundations of Fractional-order Systems3. Finite-Time Projective Synchronization Control of Variable-order Fractional Chaotic Systems Via Sliding Mode Approach4. Finite-Time Synchronization of Variable-order Fractional Uncertain Coupled Systems Via Adaptive Sliding Mode Control5. Sliding Mode Projective Synchronization for Fractional-order Coupled Systems Based on Network Without Strong Connectedness6. An Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Control Mechanism to Exponential Consensus of Fractional-order Descriptor Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems7. Leader–Follower Sliding Mode Formation Control of Fractional-order Multi-Agent Systems: A Dynamic Event-Triggered Mechanism8. An Event-Triggered Mechanism to Observer-Based Sliding Mode Control of Fractional-order Uncertain Switched Systems9. Non-Fragile Sliding Mode Control of Fractional-order Complex Networked Systems via Combination Event-Triggered Approach Outlook