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A Measure of Worst-Case HPerformance and of Largest Acceptable Uncertainty
(1991)
The structured singular value (SSV or ) is know to be an effective tool for assessing robust performance of linear time- invariant models subject to structured uncertainty. Yet all a single analysis provides is a bound ݠon ...
Nonmonotone Line Search for Minimax Problems
(1991)
It was recently shown that, in the solution of smooth constrained optimization problems by sequential programming (SQP), the Maratos effect can be prevented by means of a certain nonmonotone (more precisely, four-step ...
Optimal Path-Finding Algorithm for Mobile Robotics Devices
(1990)
Objective: Robotic technology is being developed to increase productivity and alleviate wasted time. The trajectories of motion which these robots operate on are determined by matrix algorithms within the controller of the ...
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 ...
Techniques for Designing Rotorcraft Control Systems, Final Report
(1994)
Over the last two and a half years we have been demonstrating a new methodology for the design of rotorcraft flight control systems (FCS) to meet handling qualities requirements. This method is based on multicriterion ...
Optimization of Gear Ratios for Epicyclic Gear Train Transmissions
(1992)
An interactive design system has been developed for the automotive epicyclic gear trains that can provide at least three forward gears and one reverse gear. This user-friendly windowing system can access help files, display ...
A CAD System for the Optimization of Gear Ratios for Automotive Automatic Transmissions
(1992)
An interactive design system has been developed for the design of automatic automotive transmission gear trains that can provide at least three forward and one reverse speed ratios. This user- friendly windowing system can ...
Design Choices and Usage of the Portable CONSOL Environment
(1994)
This document deals with the design choices and goals of the Portable CONSOL, project. The original version of CONSOL-OPTCAD, a software package for the optimization-based design of engineering systems developed at the ...
An SQP Algorithm for Finely Discretized SIP Problems and Other Problems with Many Constraints
(1992)
A Common strategy for achieving global convergence in the solution of semi-infinite programming (SIP) problems is to (approximately) solve a sequence of discretized problems, with a progressively finer discretization mesh. ...
Fast Feasible Direction Methods, with Engineering Applications
(1991)
Optimization problems arising in engineering applications often present distinctive features that are not exploited, or not accounted for, in standard numerical optimization algorithms and software codes. First, in many ...