Nowadays, along with the dramatic development of industrial automatic, optimization problem has been playing an important role in designing controllers for nonlinear systems. This paper proposes a hybrid control design of Fast Output Sampling Discrete Sliding Mode Control (FOSDSMC) and fractional order PID controller (FOPID) based on I ireworks algorithm (FWA) to optimize controller parameters. The hybrid controller is veriI ied on a nonlinear inverted pendulum system. The simulation of controller optimization process is carried out using MATLAB/Simulink. The results are compared with two published controllers such as a hybrid control design of PID controller and fast output sampling discrete sliding mode control, and a hybrid control conI iguration of PID and state feedback controller based on linear quadratic regulator method. The comparison results show the better performance of the proposed method.