Fractional-order differentiator is a principal component of the fractional-order controller.Discretization of fractional-order differentiator is essential to implement the fractionalorder controller digitally.Discreti...Fractional-order differentiator is a principal component of the fractional-order controller.Discretization of fractional-order differentiator is essential to implement the fractionalorder controller digitally.Discretization methods generally include indirect approach and direct approach to find the discrete-time approximation of fractional-order differentiator in the Z-domain as evident from the existing literature.In this paper,a direct approach is proposed for discretization of fractional-order differentiator in delta-domain instead of the conventional Z-domain as the delta operator unifies both analog system and digital system together at a high sampling frequency.The discretization of fractional-order differentiator is accomplished in two stages.In the first stage,the generating function is framed by reformulating delta operator using trapezoidal rule or Tustin approximation and in the next stage,the fractional-order differentiator has been approximated by expanding the generating function using continued fraction expansion method.The proposed method has been compared with two well-known direct discretization methods taken from the existing literature.Two examples are presented in this context to show the efficacy of the proposed discretization method using simulation results obtained from MATLAB.展开更多
文摘Fractional-order differentiator is a principal component of the fractional-order controller.Discretization of fractional-order differentiator is essential to implement the fractionalorder controller digitally.Discretization methods generally include indirect approach and direct approach to find the discrete-time approximation of fractional-order differentiator in the Z-domain as evident from the existing literature.In this paper,a direct approach is proposed for discretization of fractional-order differentiator in delta-domain instead of the conventional Z-domain as the delta operator unifies both analog system and digital system together at a high sampling frequency.The discretization of fractional-order differentiator is accomplished in two stages.In the first stage,the generating function is framed by reformulating delta operator using trapezoidal rule or Tustin approximation and in the next stage,the fractional-order differentiator has been approximated by expanding the generating function using continued fraction expansion method.The proposed method has been compared with two well-known direct discretization methods taken from the existing literature.Two examples are presented in this context to show the efficacy of the proposed discretization method using simulation results obtained from MATLAB.
