Abstract:
The main objectives of this study are to introduce a new class of optimal control problems governed by a dynamical system of weakly singular variable-order fractional integral equations and to establish a computational method by utilizing the Chebyshev cardinal functions for their numerical solutions. In this way, a new operational matrix of variable-order fractional integration is generated for the Chebyshev cardinal functions. In the established method, first the control and state variables are approximated by the introduced basis functions. Then, the interpolation property of these basis functions together with their mentioned operational matrix is applied to derive an algebraic equation instead of the objective function and an algebraic system of equations instead of the dynamical system. Eventually, the constrained extrema technique is applied by adjoining the constraints generated from the dynamical system to the objective function using a set of Lagrange multipliers. The accuracy of the established approach is examined through several test problems. The obtained results confirm the high accuracy of the presented method.