Stability results for fractional differential equations with applications to control processing

In this paper, stability results of main concern for control theory are given for finite-dimensional linear fractional differential systems. For fractional differential systems in state-space form, both internal and external stabilities are investigated. For fractional differential systems in polynomial representation, external stability is thoroughly examined. Our main qualitative result is that stabilities are guaranteed iff the roots of some polynomial lie outside the closed angular sector |arg(σ)| ≤ απ/2, thus generalizing in a stupendous way the well-known results for the integer case α = 1.