“…In recent time, many authors have shown the superiority of fractional order controllers over classical controllers in the area of LFC mechanism. Novel of them are fractional order PID controller [5,19], PID μ F controller [7], cascade PI-FOPD controller [14], cascade tilted-integral-derivative controller [20], fractional-order PI-PID cascade controller [21] and cascade tiltintegral-tilt-derivative controller [22]. The controller gains are optimised by various meta-heuristic techniques like bacterial foraging optimisation [3,5], opposition-based harmonic search optimisation [6], lightning search algorithm [7], modified sine cosine algorithm [10], volleyball premier league algorithm [14], stochastic fractal search optimisation [15], hybrid bacteria foraging-particle swarm optimisation (PSO) [16], modified group search optimisation [17], antlion optimiser [18], PSO [19], salp swarm algorithm (SSA) [20], sine cosine algorithm [21] and water cycle algorithm [22].…”