In this paper, the optimal conditions for fractional optimal control problems (FOCPs) were derived in which the fractional differential operators defined in terms of Caputo sense and reduces this problem to a system of fractional differential equations (FDEs) that is called twopoint boundary value (TPBV) problem. An approximate solution of this problem is constructed by using the Legendre-Gauss...

An adaptive mesh refinement method for solving optimal control problems is developed. The method employs orthogonal collocation at Legendre-Gauss-Radau points, and adjusts both the mesh size and the degree of the approximating polynomials in the refinement process. A previously derived convergence rate is used to guide the refinement process. The method brackets discontinuities and improves sol...

The Fejér and Clenshaw–Curtis rules for numerical integration exhibit a curious phenomenon when applied to certain analytic functions. When N (the number of points in the integration rule) increases, the error does not decay to zero evenly but does so in two distinct stages. For N less than a critical value, the error behaves like O( −2N ), where is a constant greater than 1. For these values o...

in the present paper, we develop a modified pseudospectral scheme for solving an optimal control problem which is governed by a switched dynamical system. many real-world processes such as chemical processes, automotive systems and manufacturing processes can be modeled as such systems. for this purpose, we replace the problem with an alternative optimal control problem in which the switching t...

in this paper, an effective and simple numerical method is proposed for solving systems of integral equations using radial basis functions (rbfs). we present an algorithm based on interpolation by radial basis functions including multiquadratics (mqs), using legendre-gauss-lobatto nodes and weights. also a theorem is proved for convergence of the algorithm. some numerical examples are presented...

in this paper, we consider the second-kind chebyshev polynomials (skcps) for the numerical solution of the fractional optimal control problems (focps). firstly, an introduction of the fractional calculus and properties of the shifted skcps are given and then operational matrix of fractional integration is introduced. next, these properties are used together with the legendre-gauss quadrature fo...

Boundary integral equations and Nyström discretization provide a powerful tool for the solution of Laplace and Helmholtz boundary value problems. However, often a weaklysingular kernel arises, in which case specialized quadratures that modify the matrix entries near the diagonal are needed to reach a high accuracy. We describe the construction of four different quadratures which handle logarith...