Content -- Improved tuning of cascade controllers for stable and integrating processes with time delay -- Sliding mode control algorithm with adaptive gain and implementation on inverted pendulum system -- Tuning rules for fractional order controllers for integrating and unstable process models -- Performance evaluation of time delay processes based on FL, FNN & fractional order controllers -- Estimation of vehicle yaw rate and lateral motion for dynamic stability control using unscented Kalman filtering (UKF) approach -- Application of PSO for optimizing gain parameters of a controller in real system -- Fuzzy-PSO approach for control in nonlinear systems - real time application -- Comparative performance analysis of various tuning methods in the design of PID controller