This article investigates the solvability and optimal controls of systems monitored by fractional delay evolution inclusions with Clarke subdifferential type. By applying a fixed-point theorem of condensing multivalued maps and some properties of Clarke subdifferential, an existence theorem concerned with the mild solution for the system is proved under suitable assumptions. Moreover, an existence result of optimal control pair that governed by the presented system is also obtained under some mild conditions. Finally, an example is given to illustrate our main results.(1.1) where c D0 denotes Caputo fractional time derivatives of order˛, A : D.A/ Â H ! H is the infinitesimal generator of a uniformly bounded C 0 -semigroup fT.t/g t 0 on H, fB.t/ : t 2 Ig is a family of linear operators from Y to H, g : I H ! H is a nonlinear function, @J.t, / is the Clarke's subdifferential of J.t, /, '.t/ 2 C.OE , 0; H/, and U ad denotes an admissible control set.Let A ad be a set of all admissible state control pairs .x, u/. The cost functional on the set A ad is given byThe optimal control problem of classical integer order differential equations and inclusions is of interest for aviation and space technology. It is also important in fields such as robotics, movement sequences in sports, and the control of chemical processes and power plants. In many practical cases, however, the processes to be optimized can no longer be adequately modeled by classical integer order differential equations and inclusions; instead, fractional order differential equations and inclusions have to be employed for their description. For instance, the hereditary and memory properties of viscoelasticity, electrical circuits, biomechanics, electrochemistry, biology, blood flow phenomena, signal, and image processing can be well predicted and described by some fractional order differential equations and inclusions, see [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]. Recently, some researchers focused on the study of the solvability and optimal control of systems monitored by fractional order differential equations. For more details, we refer to the work [10-16] and references therein. Very recently, Lu et al. [17] discussed the solvability and optimal control of problem (1.1) when g.t, x.t // D 0 and x.0/ D '.0/ D x 0 . However, in some practical situations, as Richard [18] pointed out that many physical processes in nature include time delay phenomena. For example, Niculescu [19] and Kolmanovskii and Myshkis [20] demonstrated that time delay arise in chemistry, biology, 3026-3039 Z t 0 .t s/ n ˛ 1 x .n/ .s/ds D I˛x .n/ .t/, t > 0, 0 Ä n 1 <˛< n; (ii) The Caputo derivative of a constant is equal to zero; (iii) If x is an abstract function which has values in H, then integrals which appear in Definitions 2.1 and 2.2 are taken in Bochner's sense.Definition 2.4 ([21, 22]) Let X be a Banach space with the dual space X and J : X ! R be a locally Lipschitz functional on X. The Clarke's generalized directional derivative of J at the point x 2 X in the direction v 2 X, denoted by ...