Several papers reviewing fractional order calculus in control applications have been
published recently. These papers focus on general tuning procedures, especially for the …

Today, there is a great tendency toward using fractional calculus to solve engineering
problems. The control is one of the fields in which fractional calculus has attracted a lot of …

This paper presents an adaptive Fractional Order PID (FOPID) controller for improving the
performance of a Brushless DC (BLDC) motor using Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm …

For improving the convergence rate and time-varying disturbance rejection ability, an
adaptive nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller based on disturbance compensation …

The scientific community has recently seen a fast-growing number of publications tackling
the topic of fractional-order controllers in general, with a focus on the fractional order PID …

This article presents a novel Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA) approach for optimal
tuning of Fractional-Order Proportional Integral and integral-order Controller (FOPIλ) is used …

PID controllers are largely used in industry. Auto-tuning methods for these controllers have
emerged over the years, including the well-known Ziegler–Nichols method. Several …

The present manuscript aims at raising awareness of the endless possibilities of fractional
calculus applied not only to system identification and control engineering, but also into …

The beauty of the proportional-integral-derivative (PID) algorithm for feedback control is its
simplicity and efficiency. Those are the main reasons why PID controller is the most common …

In recent years, numerous applications of science and engineering for modeling and control
of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) systems based …