Tuning the fractional-order pid-controller for blood glucose level of diabetic patients

The conducted research aims to attain the optimal approach for a certain control unit, namely the Proportional-Integral-Derivative-controller (or simply PID-controller), which typically monitors the blood sugar level of a diabetic patient. This would be implemented through introducing a fractional-order PID-controller (or PIyDP-controller) instead of the already classical one. Two optimization algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Bacteria Foraging Optimization (BFO) algorithms, together with two different approximations, the Continued Fraction Expansion (CFE) and the Outstaloup's approaches, will be used to complete the design process. Several numerical comparisons will be performed to reach the best approach to meet the optimal needs of this industrial application.