Abstract The agricultural community is confronted with dual challenges; increasing production of nutritionally dense food and decreasing the impacts these crop systems on land, water, climate. Control plant pathogens will figure prominently in meeting challenges as diseases cause significant yield economic losses to crops responsible for feeding a large portion world population. New approaches ...

The paper discusses several control techniques for a class of systems described by fractional order equations. presents the unit frequency criteria that ensure closed loop for: Fractional Order Linear Systems, Systems with nonlinear components, Time Delay components. stability criterion is proposed composed subsystems. These are used in two applications: Soft Exoskeleton Glove Control, studied ...

Due to their flexibility, Electric Vehicles (EVs) constitute an important asset for the integration of renewable energy sources in Smart Grid. In particular, they should have a dual role: as controllable load and mobile generator with low inertia. To perform these tasks, chargers must provide electronics power flow from grid vehicle vice versa. This bidirectionality can also be implemented wire...