“…A recent approximate analytical methods are: modified ADM for fractional optimal control problems (FOCPs) [20], optimal control of a constrained fractionally damped elastic beam [21], analyses of an optimal solutions of optimization problems from fractional gradient based system using VIM [22], conformable fractional optimal control problem of an heat conduction equations using Laplace and finite Fourier sine transforms [23], spectral Galerkin approximation [24], and direct transcription methods for FOCPs [25], but the aforementioned methods lack convergence norm that will guarantee the convergence of the series solution. In 1992, Liao proposed the homotopy analysis method (HAM) [26] for solving the nonlinear problem which was later advanced to optimal homotopy asymptotic method for noninteger order [27], new fractional homotopy method for optimal control problems (OCPs) [28], and comparisons of OHAM [29]. But OHAM has never been used to solve FOCPs, which drives this research work.…”