AccScience Publishing / IJOCTA / Volume 14 / Issue 3 / DOI: 10.11121/ijocta.1478
RESEARCH ARTICLE

An accurate finite difference formula for the numerical solution of delay-dependent fractional optimal control problems

Dumitru Baleanu1,2 Mojtaba Hajipour3 Amin Jajarmi4*
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1 Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
2 Institute of Space Sciences, P.O. Box, MG-23, R 76900, Magurele-Bucharest, Romania
3 Department of Mathematics, Sahand University of Technology, P.O. Box, 51335-1996, Tabriz, Iran
4 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bojnord, P.O. Box, 94531-1339, Bojnord, Iran
IJOCTA 2024, 14(3), 183–192; https://doi.org/10.11121/ijocta.1478
Submitted: 30 October 2023 | Accepted: 21 March 2024 | Published: 12 July 2024
© 2024 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Time-delay fractional optimal control problems (OCPs) are an important research area for developing effective control and optimization strategies to address complex phenomena occurring in various natural sciences, such as physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. By considering fractional OCPs with time delays, we can design control strategies that take into account the system's history and optimize its behavior over a given time horizon. However, applying the Pontryagin principle of maximization to solve these problems leads to a boundary value problem (BVP) that includes delay and advance terms, making analytical solutions difficult and demanding. To address this issue, this paper presents a precise finite difference formula to solve the aforementioned advance-delay BVP numerically. The suggested approximate method's error analysis and convergence properties are provided, and several illustrative examples demonstrate the applicability, validity, and accuracy of the proposed approach. Simulation results confirm the proposed technique's advantages for the optimal control of delay fractional dynamical equations.

Keywords
Fractional optimal control
Time-delay system
Finite difference method
High-order accuracy
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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