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User's Guide for FSQP Version 2.0 A Fortran Code for Solving Optimization Problems, Possibly Minimax, with General Inequality Constraints and Linear Equality Constraints, Generating Feasible Iterates
(1990)
FSQP 2.0 is a set of Fortran subroutines for the minimization of the maximum of a set of smooth objective functions (possibly a single one) subject to nonlinear smooth inequality constraints, linear inequality and linear ...
Systematic Methodologies for the Automatic Enumeration of the Topological Structures of Mechanisms
(1993)
This thesis proposes new algorithms for the enumeration of the topological structure of mechanisms. The definitions of dual graph and dual of a contracted graph are modified to provide a one-to-one correspondence between ...
On Continuity/Discontinuity in Robustness Indicators
(1991)
Continuity/discontinuity of robustness indicators is reviewed. For the case of real or mixed uncertainty, a regularization of the frequency dependent robustness margin is proposed and its properties are discussed. Implication ...
Controlled Markov Processes on the Infinite Planning Horizon: Weighted and, Overtaking Cost Criteria
(1993)
Stochastic control problems for controlled Markov processes models with an infinite planning horizon are considered, under some non-standard cost criteria. The classical discounted and average cost criteria can be viewed ...
Iteractive Graphics and Dynamical Simulation in a Distributed Processing Environment
(1990)
An implementation of a distributed dynamical simulation is presented. Issues concerning real time simulation are discussed. Three dimensional, animated, object oriented graphics software is presented with problems and ...
Dynamic Bifurcations in a Power System Model Exhibiting Voltage Collapse
(1992)
Dynamic bifurcations, including Hopf and period-doubling bifurcations, are found to occur in a power system dynamic model recently employed in voltage collapse studies. The occurrence of dynamic bifurcations is ascertained ...
Bifurcation Control of chaotic Dynamical Systems
(1992)
A nonlinear system which exhibits bifurcations, transient chaos, and fully developed chaos is considered, with the goal of illustrating the role of two ideas in the control of chaotic dynamical systems. The first of these ...
Coordination of the Walking Stick Insect Using a System of Nonlinear Coupled Oscillators
(1992)
The area of walking machines is investigated. A design for pattern generator composed of nonlinear coupled oscillators which generates the characteristic gaits of the walking stick insect is presented. A full dynamic model ...
Almost Poisson Integration of Rigid Body Systems
(1991)
In this paper we discuss the numerical integration of Lie-Poisson Systems using the mid-point rule. Since such systems result from the reduction of hamiltonian systems with symmetry by Lie Group actions, we also present ...
An SQP Algorithm for Finely Discretized Continuous Minimax Problems and Other Minimax Problems with Many Objective Functions
(1993)
A common strategy for achieving global convergence in the solution of semi-infinite programming (SIP) problems, and in particular of continuous minimax problems, is to (approximately) solve a sequence of discretized problems, ...