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Nowadays, design and tuning of controllers with predefined structures are among the most popular topics in control system theory. During the last decade, many studies have focused on designing fixed-structure fractional-order compensators. This paper presents a generalized version of fractional-order compensators to achieve the required magnitudes and phases at two given frequencies (for example, to achieve desired phase and gain margins with adjustable cross frequencies). In this generalization, at first some basic analysis of the phase behaviour of this introduced type of fractional-order compensators is presented. Also, exact formulas are found for designing this family of compensators in... 

This paper presents an analytical method to tune a fixed-structure fractional-order compensator for satisfying desired phase and gain margins with adjustable crossover frequencies. The proposed method is based on the measured frequency data of the plant. Since no analytical model for the plant is needed in the compensator tuning procedure, the resulted compensator does not depend on the order and complexity of the plant. Also, sufficient conditions for the existence of a compensator with no zero and pole in the right half-plane for satisfying the aforementioned objectives are analytically derived. Furthermore, different hardware-in-the-loop experimental results are presented to show the... 

This paper deals with robust frequency compensation in control of fractional-order plants with an uncertain fractional pole/zero (or specially in control of integer-order plants with an uncertain pole/zero). The specifications yielding a robust compensation are introduced, and fractional-order compensators are proposed for satisfying these specifications in the set-point tracking control of the above-mentioned plants. Also, the infinite ranges for the uncertain parameter of the plant, in which satisfying robust compensation specifications is possible by the obtained compensators, are exactly specified. Furthermore, the stability of the obtained control system is analytically analyzed.... 

Different real-world processes can be described by a linear model parameterised with respect to the processoperating point, as an uncertain parameter. The family of transport processes with long memory is a kind of these processeswhich are characterised by the parameterised time-fractional diffusion equations. This study proposes a generalised isodamping feature for achieving the phase margin invariance regardless of the uncertain parameter variations in control of timefractional diffusion processes. Also, the study suggests an analytical method to tune stabilising fractional-order proportional-integral/proportional-derivative controllers for adjusting a desired value for the phase margin at... 

Analytical data-driven tuning procedures with the aim of adjusting the values of frequency-domain specifications, e.g., gain margin, phase margin, and corresponding crossover frequencies, are among the most popular control techniques in industrial control. But, the multiplicity of crossover frequencies, as an Achilles' heel in these procedures, may cause that the obtained control system does not meet the intended frequency-domain objectives. Motivated by this fact, this paper improves a newly proposed data-driven tuning procedure for arbitrarily setting the values of gain and phase margins and crossover frequencies, in the viewpoint of guaranteeing the uniqueness of crossover frequencies.... 

Local hyperthermia is one of the most common methods to treat cancerous tumors, near the skin surface or natural body orifices. In order to study the problem of temperature control during local hyperthermia, firstly the heat conduction process during this therapy is analytically modeled by a time-delayed fractional-order transfer function, parametrized with respect to the body temperature. Since the body temperature may vary under the influence of patient physiological reaction and heat source, a robustness criterion is proposed to achieve the phase margin invariance despite of the temperature variations. Afterwards, an analytical method is proposed to tune stabilizing FO-PI/PD controllers... 

The perovskite oxide BaTiO3, doped with Ge oxides oxidized methane to C2 coupled hydrocarbons. The ultraviolet-visible spectra of pure barium titanate and Ge doped BaTi(1-x) GexO3 (x=0.05 ,0.1) were compared. The pure barium titanate exhibited an ultraviolet absorption effect. The addition of GeO2 resulted in an increase in absorption of wavelength. Therefore, small amount of Ge decreased band gap energy. Oxygen is inserted by nucleophilic attack which may be considered as an acid-base process. For promoted BaTiO3 catalysts with stable cation valance, electron donation ability of lattice oxygen is parallels to its ability of adsorb and active oxygen, and decrease the chance of deep oxidation... 

The perovskite oxide BaTiO3, doped with Ge oxides oxidized methane to C2 coupled hydrocarbons. The pure barium titanate exhibited an ultraviolet absorption effect. The addition of GeO2 resulted in an increase in absorption of wavelength. Small amount of Ge decreased band gap energy. For promoted BaTiO3 catalysts with stable cation valance, electron donation ability of lattice oxygen was parallel to its ability of adsorb and active oxygen, and decreased the chance of deep oxidation of methyl radicals and C2 hydrocarbons and thus will result in an increase of C2 yield. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the 42nd Loss Prevention Symposium (New Orleans, LA 4/6-10/2008)  

The perovskite oxide BaTiO3, doped with Ge oxides oxidized methane to C2 coupled hydrocarbons. The ultraviolet-visible spectra of pure barium titanate and Ge doped BaTi(1-x)GexO3(x=0.05,0.1) were compared. The pure barium titanate exhibited an ultraviolet absorption effect. The addition of GeO2 resulted in an increase in absorption of wavelength. Therefore, small amount of Ge decreased band gap energy. Oxygen is inserted by nucleophilic attack which may be considered as an acid-base process. For promoted BaTiO3catalysts with stable cation valance, electron donation ability of lattice oxygen is parallels to its ability of adsorb and active oxygen, and decrease the chance of deep oxidation of...