Caputo-fabrizio fractional-order systems: periodic solution and stabilization of non-periodic solution with application to gunn diode oscillator

Abstract

Abstract Fractional-order autonomous systems do not possess any non-constant periodic solutions, and to the best of our knowledge, there are no existing results regarding the existence of the periodic solution for fractional-order non-autonomous systems. The main objective of this work is to fill the above gap by studying the existence of a periodic solution of the Caputo-Fabrizio fractional-order system and also to find ways to stabilize a non-periodic solution. First, by using the concepts of an equilibrium point, it is proved that an autonomous Caputo-Fabrizio system cannot admit a non-constant periodic solution. Under a similar assumption as the one for an integer-order differential system, and by using the properties of the Caputo-Fabrizio derivative, the existence of a periodic solution of a non-autonomous Caputo-Fabrizio fractional-order differential system is established. The main result is utilized in constructing and finding the periodic solution of the linear non-homogeneous Caputo-Fabrizio system. By using the result on linear systems, we derive a periodic solution of a fractional-order Gunn diode oscillator under a periodic input voltage, and observe that the diameter of the periodic orbit keeps reducing as the fractional-order continuously increases. In the end, by using the result on a linear non-homogeneous system, and by constructing a suitable linear feedback control, the solution of the linear non-homogeneous fractional-order system is stabilized to a periodic solution. An example is presented to support the obtained result. The main advantage of the proposed method over others is the simple considerations like the concept of equilibrium point and the utilization of the property of the Caputo-Fabrizio derivatives instead of other types of fractional derivatives.