Controllability of the time-varying fractional dynamical systems with a single delay in control

In this article, we explored the controllability of fractional dynamical systems with a single delay in the control function with the Caputo fractional derivative. It is the first work in which the author studies the controllability of a time-varying fractional dynamical system with a delay in the control function. We develop the necessary and sufficient criteria for the solution representation of controllability of time-varying fractional linear dynamical systems by utilizing the Grammian matrix. We use Schauder’s fixed point theorem to establish sufficient conditions for the controllability of time-varying nonlinear fractional dynamical systems. With the help of successive approximation techniques, numerical examples validate the theoretical results.