State space realization of fractional order systems.

In the past few years, fractional calculus appeared to be a useful tool for the modeling and control of dynamic systems. Although, some methods of the control theory have been developed for the commensurate case, the difficulties of the non commensurate called generalized fractional systems still remain unsolved. In this paper, a method is presented for obtaining the state space model of a generalized fractional system starting from its transfer function. The method remains valid for the particular cases of commensurate and integer systems. An application to some examples illustrates the algorithm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]