Sustainability is important in voltage regulation control in grids and must be done successfully. In this paper, a novel tilt-fractional order integral-derivative with a second order derivative and low-pass filters controller, referred to as TIλDND2N2 controller, is proposed to enhance the control performance of an automatic voltage regulator (AVR). In this article, the equilibrium optimizer (EO) algorithm is used to optimally determine the eight parameters of the proposed controller. In this study, a function consisting of time domain specifications is used as the objective function. To evaluate the performance of the proposed controller, it is compared with the proportional-integral-derivative (PID), fractional order PID (FOPID), PID accelerator (PIDA), PID plus second order derivative (PIDD2), and hybrid controllers used in previous studies. Then, Bode analysis is performed to determine the achievement of the proposed controller in the frequency domain. Finally, the robustness test is realized to assess the response of the proposed controller against the deterioration of the system parameters. As a result, the proposed controller demonstrates outstanding control performance compared to studies in terms of settling time, rise time and overshoot. The proposed controller shows superior performance not only in frequency domain analysis but also in perturbed system parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]