NUMERICAL METHOD FOR SOLVING FRACTIONAL OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS

A numerical technique for the solution of a class of fractional optimal control problems has been proposed in this paper. The technique can used for problems defined both in terms of Riemann-Liouville and Caputo fractional derivatives. In this technique a Reflection Operator is used to convert the right Riemann-Liouville derivative into an equivalent left Riemann-Liouville derivative, and then the two point boundary value problem is solved numerically. The proposed method is straightforward and it uses an available numerical technique to solve fractional differential equations resulting from the formulation. Examples considered here show that the numerical results obtained using this and other techniques agree very well.