%V 264 %L scholars14067 %D 2020 %X This chapter presents the background on conventional PID controllers, fractional calculus, fractional-order PID controllers, approximation techniques and toolboxes for implementing the fractional-order controllers together with the scope of this book has been provided. To stimulate much interest of the readers, all necessary references has also been provided. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. %R 10.1007/978-3-030-33934-0₁ %J Studies in Systems, Decision and Control %T Introduction %A K. Bingi %A R. Ibrahim %A M.N. Karsiti %A S.M. Hassan %A V.R. Harindran %I Springer International Publishing %O cited By 0 %P 1-5