The CRONE toolbox for Matlab

A new CAD tool, the CRONE Matlab toolbox, is presented for engineers and researchers in mathematics and engineering sciences, particularly for electrical and electronic engineering and automatic control. The originality, aims, form and use of the toolbox are presented. The three main modules are described: their content, principle, algorithms, and applications for identification and control. Examples of their use are given. The original theoretical mathematical concepts developed in our laboratory based on noninteger differentiation are used for the computation. CRONE control is a typical application. The toolbox is not only for researchers, including Ph.D students, but also for industrials whose growing interest in noninteger integration, and their readiness to invest in the development of its applications, are manifest. The paper is divided into four sections: aims and organization of the toolbox, “mathematical tools” module, “identification by noninteger model” module, and the “CRONE CSD” module. The final section discusses perspectives