Fractional-order identification system based on Sundaresan’s technique

This paper investigates the Sundaresan technique for modeling fractional order systems. Sundaresan, Prasad, and Krishnaswamy published this method in 1978 for modeling oscillatory and non-oscillatory systems based on the second-order integer transfer function. This technique is based on the transient response parameters. A problem of convergence of the derivative of the response in the frequency domain makes it impossible to follow Sundaresan’s solution in his original paper with integer order when it is a fractional order case. The paper proposes an equation that outlines this problem. Due to the limited knowledge of the inverse Mittag-Leffler function, a reduced form of this equation is explicit to avoid the inverse problem. Results with simulated and real curve shapes show that the method works well, with a good approximation to the curve, both with simulation and real system curves. •Develop an equation for fine-tuning the parameters of the pseudo-second-order system.•Novel fractional-order identification based on Sundaresan technique.•The method proposed is a generalized method of the classic Sundaresan technique.