This paper deals with integral based methods to estimate the order and parameters of simple fractional order models from the extracted noisy step response data of a process. This data can be obtained from both open-loop and closed-loop tests. Numerical simulation results are presented to verify the robustness of these proposed methods in the presence of the measurement noise.

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