Gain Scheduling Fractional Order PID Control for Nonlinear Missile Pitch Dynamics

This section details the design of a gain scheduling Fractional Order PID (FPID) controller for the pitch channel dynamics of a nonlinear missile model. Researchers have highlighted the advantages of incorporating fractional derivatives and integrals to enhance the performance and robustness beyond what is achievable with conventional integer order controllers. The FPID controller builds upon the classical PID control framework by integrating the principles of fractional calculus [1].