New Result for the Analysis of Katugampola Fractional-Order Systems—Application to Identification Problems

Abstract

In the last few years, a new class of fractional-order (FO) systems, known as Katugampola FO systems, has been introduced. This class is noteworthy to investigate, as it presents a generalization of the well-known Caputo fractional-order systems. In this paper, a novel lemma for the analysis of a function with a bounded Katugampola fractional integral is presented and proven. The Caputo–Katugampola fractional derivative concept, which involves two parameters 0 < α < 1 and ρ > 0, was used. Then, using the demonstrated barbalat-like lemma, two identification problems, namely, the “Fractional Error Model 1” and the “Fractional Error Model 1 with parameter constraints”, were studied and solved. Numerical simulations were carried out to validate our theoretical results.