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MOC
2000
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13 years 7 months ago
Convergence of gauge method for incompressible flow
A new formulation, a gauge formulation of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in terms of an auxiliary field a and a gauge variable , u = a + , was proposed recently by E an...
Cheng Wang, Jian-Guo Liu
MP
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Elastic-mode algorithms for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints: global convergence and stationarity properties
The elastic-mode formulation of the problem of minimizing a nonlinear function subject to equilibrium constraints has appealing local properties in that, for a finite value of the...
Mihai Anitescu, Paul Tseng, Stephen J. Wright
CDC
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
An adjoint method for second-order switching time optimization
Abstract-- Switched systems evolve over a sequence of continuous modes of operation, transitioning between modes in a discrete manner. Assuming a mode sequence is known, the evolut...
Timothy M. Caldwell, Todd D. Murphey
CORR
2010
Springer
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Pairwise Optimal Discrete Coverage Control for Gossiping Robots
Abstract-- We propose distributed algorithms to automatically deploy a group of robotic agents and provide coverage of a discretized environment represented by a graph. The classic...
Joseph W. Durham, Ruggero Carli, Francesco Bullo
SIAMJO
2008
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Recursive Trust-Region Methods for Multiscale Nonlinear Optimization
A class of trust-region methods is presented for solving unconstrained nonlinear and possibly nonconvex discretized optimization problems, like those arising in systems governed by...
Serge Gratton, Annick Sartenaer, Philippe L. Toint