1. Introduction
Fractional dynamical systems are systems that contain fractional differential equations of non-integer derivatives. Such systems are used to analyze fractional dynamics. Integrals and derivatives of fractional orders are used to illustrate objects that can be described by power-law non-locality, power-law long-range dependence, or fractal properties. Fractional order systems are useful in investigating the rules of dynamical systems in electrochemistry, physics, viscoelasticity, biology, and chaotic systems. In the past few decades, the growth of science and engineering systems has considerably stimulated the employment of fractional calculus in many subjects of the control theory, for example in stability, stabilization, controllability, observability, observer design, and fault estimation. In fact, the use of fractional calculus can improve and generalize well-established control methods. A variety of results have been established for the controllability of nonlinear fractional systems [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9].
On the other hand, the stability theory of differential equations plays a vital role in the qualitative analysis of differential systems. There are different types of stability. Among these, one of the most important types is Hyers–Ulam stability (HUR) which was introduced by Ulam in 1940 and then generalized by Rassias in 1978 as Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability (HURS). As this type of stability guarantees a bound between the exact and approximate solutions, it is often required in a variety of applications, including optimization, approximation, and numerical analysis; for more detals, we refer interested readers to [
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18]. Another important type of stability is finite time stability (FTS), which was first presented in 1953 [
19]. It is concerned with the behavior of a system in a specified time interval. In order to extract sufficient conditions for FTS, researchers can employ the Lyapunov technique, characteristic equation method, or Grönwall approach [
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30].
Nawaz et al. [
31] derived conditions for the controllability of a fractional differential system with control and state delay. Li and Wang [
32] considered an explicit solution formula and derived the controllability criteria for a differential system with delay in the state. Sakthivel et al. [
33] investigated fractional differential systems for approximate controllability. Their results were established by assuming the associated linear system to be approximately controllable. Denghao and Wei [
34] studied the finite time stability of a neutral fractional system with time delay of the following form:
where
provides the Caputo fractional derivative of order
,
,
are system matrices of suitable dimensions,
represents the delay term which depends on past history, and
denotes a continuously differentiable function on
.
Motivated by the aforementioned works, in this paper we investigate a neutral impulsive and delay system for controllability and stability analysis, which takes the following form:
where
is a fixed number. Here, for
,
satisfies
. In addition,
is the infinitesimal generator of a
semigroup
on a Banach space
Z,
and
are bounded linear operators,
is a bounded linear operator from
U into
Z, the control parameter
is provided in
,
U is a Banach space,
, and
are given functions, which satisfy certain assumptions in the following sections. FTS has been thoroughly researched by scholars using various methodologies; however, the present study uses the generalized Grönwall approach. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a the neutral impulsive fractional system has been investigated in the sense of
–HURS and FTS.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows.
Section 2 presents the preliminaries and hypothesis.
Section 3 provides results for the controllability of system (
1).
Section 4 deals with the stability analysis, while
Section 5 provides a valid example. Finally,
Section 6 briefly summarizes the outcomes.
2. Preliminaries
Consider the space of all continuous functions
, where
, endowed with the norm:
In addition, consider the Banach space
with norm defined by
Definition 1. For any linear space Z over a field F, is said to be β-norm if:
- (i)
if ;
- (ii)
for any with ;
- (iii)
.
The space under consideration is then a -Banach space associated with norm .
Definition 2 ([
35]). The fractional integral, in the Riemann-Liouville sense, of order
with a lower limit zero of a function
, is provided by
where
Definition 3 ([
35]). For a function
the Caputo derivative of a fractional order
is defined as
where
, in which
represents the integer part of
and
is the space of all
n-times continuously differentiable functions from
to
.
Lemma 1 ([
35]).
The general solution of the fractional differential equation of the order with the form is provided by where Remark 1 ([
34]).
Using Lemma 1 and applying the integral on both sides of (1), the solution can be expressed in the form of the equivalent volterra integral equationProceeding with the method followed by [36], the mild solution of System (1) (referring to [37], Definition 7) can be presented as follows:where Lemma 2 ([
38]).
The operators appearing in Definition 1 have the following properties: - (i)
For any , the operators and are linear. Moreover, if , then the operators and are bounded, i.e., for any , there holds - (ii)
Operators and are strongly continuous, i.e., for all and , we have - (iii)
For , and are compact operators if is compact.
Definition 4 (Exact Controllability [
27]).
System (1) is known to be exactly controllable on if, for every , and , there exists such that the solution of (1) corresponding to satisfies and . Definition 5 (Approximate Controllability [
39]).
System (1) is called approximately controllable on if, for every , and , there exists such that the corresponding solution of (1) satisfies and . Remark 2 ([
40]).
A semilinear impulsive system is exactly controllable if, for any initial condition and final condition , we are able to find a control such that the operator defined by the right side of the system solution has a fixed point. Definition 6 (Finite time stability).
For a system to be finite time stable with respect to , , the following criteria must be fulfilled: which implies that where . Definition 7 (
–Hyers Ulam–Rassias stability).
System (1) is said to be β–HUR stable with respect to if we can find a positive constant such that for any solution of (11) and any there exists a solution y of system (1) in satisfying Lemma 3 (Grönwall lemma [
41]).
For with where and q is nondecreasing, it is the case that for , we have Remark 3. If we replace with , then Lemma 4 (Generalized Grönwall Inequality [
34]).
Suppose , are non-negative and locally integrable on , , and with on this interval;
then,
Corollary 1. Letbe a non decreasing function on ;
then,
where Lemma 5 ([
42]).
Let satisfy the following inequality: where is non-negative continuous on ,
and are constants. Then,
Definition 8. The function is called a contraction if, for every , there exists a constant such thatwhereis a metric space. 3. Controllability
The exact and approximate controllability of the fractional neutral system are proved in this section. Before stating our main results, the following conditions are imposed:
: The semigroup generated by is uniformly bounded on Z, i.e., there is a constant such that .
: The nonlinear function
is continuous in
for all
, while ∃ is a positive constant
such that
for all
.
: There exist constants
such that
and
: The function is uniformly bounded, and such that for all .
: is compact.
: The following inequalities hold:
and
3.1. Exact Controllability
We define the operator
by
In view of Remark 2, the problem of finding the exact controllability is reduced to finding a fixed point for . This is achieved with the help of Banach contraction mapping.
Theorem 1. Let conditions hold true. Then, for a given control function , the problem (1) is exactly controllable on . Proof. Step 1: Consider the sphere
such that
We can show that
. If
, it is readily obtainable that
. For any
, if
, then under assumption
and per Lemma 2(i) we have
Let
, then
where
In view of the definition of R and condition , we obtain . Therefore, maps the ball of radius R into itself.
Step 2: We now show that
is a contraction mapping on
. If
, the claim is obviously valid. If
, then for any
, it follows from assumption
that we have
Hence, following
,
is a contraction on
. Therefore,
has a unique fixed point in
, which is the solution of the system. □
3.2. Approximate Controllability
Consider the linear fractional control system
Let
be the state value of (
1) at terminal time
corresponding to
and the initial value
. The set
is known as the reachable set of system (
1) at terminal time
. The closure set is denoted by
. A system is said to be approximately controllable if
, i.e., for any
, the system can steer from
to a neighborhood of
within a distance
from all points in the state space
Z at time
.
We define the controllability Grammian operator by
and
Here, is the adjoint of and is the adjoint of .
Theorem 2. Assume that hold; then, system (1) is approximately controllable on if the linear system (10) is approximately controllable on Proof. Let
be a fixed point of
in
. Any fixed point of
is a mild solution of the system under control:
and satisfies
where
Per
, we have
Consequently, the sequence
is bounded in
. Thus, there is a subsequence
that converges weakly to
in
. The compactness of
now implies that
in
, and accordingly we obtain
as
, where
Then, we obtain
as
.
Consequently, the approximate controllability is proved. □
4. Stability Results
This section deals with finite time stability and Ulam-type stability for system (
1).
4.1. FTS Results
The finite time stability of system (
1) is presented in the following theorem, given a necessary and sufficient condition.
Theorem 3. The neutral fractional system (1) is finite time stable subject to the following condition: Proof. We designate norm of an element
by
Let
be equipped with norm
where
.
From Definition 1, solution (
2) is provided by
Applying the norm on both sides, we have
Let the biggest singular value of matrix
be denoted by
. For simplicity, we denote
by
,
by
,
by
,
by
, and
by
. Therefore,
For
, we have
and
Using relation
we obtain
and
Let
and
Because the right-hand side of the above equation is a nondecreasing function, we have
or
Using the generalized Grönwall inequality, we obtain
with
. Taking
, we then have
Hence, using the basic condition of Lemma 3, we have
□
4.2. HURS Results
The –HURS of the given system is discussed by considering a few assumptions:
, which satisfies the Caratheodory conditions, and the ∃ constant
such that
for every
.
, for
, where there exist constants
such that
for each
.
The inequality holds.
Choose
,
, and
from
. Assume the following inequality holds:
Remark 4. Inequality (11) indicates that a function is the solution to inequality (11) if and only if we can find , and a sequence , satisfying Remark 4 concludes that the solution of System (
12) is
Theorem 4. Let assumptions hold. Then, System (1) has a unique solution . Proof. Define an operator
by
For any
and
, we have
For
, we have
Then,
is contractive with respect to
. Therefore,
has a unique fixed point, which is the solution of System (
1). □
Consider the following assumptions:
, which satisfies the Carathéodory condition, and there exists a function
such that
for every
and
.
Considering the above assumptions and inequality (
11), we present our result.
Theorem 5. Let , and hold. Then, System (1) is β–HUR stable with respect to . Proof. Let inequality (
11) result in
y as its solution. Then,
For each
, we have
Therefore, for every
we obtain
Using
and applying Grönwall’s Lemma 3, we have
where
Hence, we obtain
where
□
5. Example
Consider the following fractional problem:
where
Clearly
and
hold for the reason that
and
Entering
, we have
and thus
holds. Therefore, the system has a unique solution.
Now, taking
we have
Therefore, the system is –HURS with respect to , with .
6. Conclusions
In the present article, we have explained the exact and approximate controllability of a neutral system of differential equations containing impulses and delays. Our results are dominated by fixed point theory. The finite time stability and –Hyers–Ulam–Rassias stability of the aforementioned system are discussed by employing Grönwall-type inequality. Our obtained results are quite significant, as controllability is a qualitative property which plays a central role in control problems. It provides feedback to stabilize an unstable system. Finite time stability requires prescribed bounds on system variables. For systems that are known to operate only over a finite interval of time, this means that whenever, based on practical considerations, the system’s variables must lie within the specific bounds, the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of fractional differential systems guarantees a bound between the exact and approximate solutions. Therefore, such an approach may be required in a number of applications, including optimization, approximation, and numerical analysis. In the future, this study may be extended to include neutral integral fractional differential systems.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, L.G., K.A.S., S.B. and A.Z.; formal analysis, L.G., K.A.S., S.B. and A.Z.; writing—original draft preparation, L.G., K.A.S., S.B. and A.Z.; writing—review and editing, L.G., K.A.S., S.B. and A.Z.; funding acquisition, L.G., K.A.S., S.B. and A.Z. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12101086), Changzhou Science and Technology Planning Project (CJ20210133), Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0123), and Technology Research Foundation of Chongqing Educational Committee (KJQN 202000528).
Data Availability Statement
Not applicable.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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