Extremal Shift to Accompanying Points in a Positional Differential Game for a Fractional-Order System

Abstract

A two-person zero-sum differential game is considered. The motion of the dynamic system is described by an ordinary differential equation with a Caputo fractional derivative of order α ∈ (0, 1). The quality index consists of two terms: the first depends on the motion of the system realized by the terminal time and the second includes an integral estimate of the realizations of the players’ controls. The positional approach is applied to formalize the game in the “strategy–counterstrategy” and “counterstrategy–strategy” classes as well as in the “strategy–strategy” classes under the additional saddle point condition in the small game. In each case, the existence of the value and of the saddle point of the game is proved. The proofs are based on an appropriate modification of the method of extremal shift to accompanying points, which takes into account the specific properties of fractional-order systems.