how to use fmincon solver for optimising a continuously varying function?

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Nadia A
Nadia A 2016-6-2
评论： Walter Roberson 2016-6-2
Hi
I need to optimize a function of the form
y(i)= exp(-a(i)/x(1)) + 1.285 + ((b(i)^2)*x(2)) - (x(3)*c(i)*(1-exp(-c(i)/(x(3)*x(2))));
a(i) and c(i) are inputs. b(i) is dependant on a(i). The matrices a,b,c are obtained first. x(1),x(2),x(3) are the coefficients to be optimized. x>=0 .
When I try to use fmincon solver, it returns an error ::
Error using fmincon (line 607)
User supplied objective function must return a scalar value.
How do I rectify this?
Thanks
Nadia

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2016-6-2
function y = obj(x, a, b, c)
y = sum( ( exp(-a./x(1)) + 1.285 + ((b.^2).*x(2)) - (x(3).*c.*(1-exp(-c./(x(3).*x(2))))) ).^2 );
You need to recheck your equation as you have a missing ")" in it. I put it at the end.
To use the above:
fmincon( @(x) obj(x, a, b, c), x0, .....)
What will be minimized is the sum of squares. This is, in other words, a least squared minimimization.
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Nadia A
Nadia A 2016-6-2
Is it better to use lsqnonneg/lsqnonlin/lsqcurvefit instead of fmincon if this is actually minimizing the least squares?
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson 2016-6-2
lsqnonlin has better residue analysis, but the available algorithms are the same I think. Your only constraint is non-negative, which lsqnonlin can handle through the lb argument. If you had any linear or nonlinear constraints then you would have to use fmincon.
For lsqnonlin you would not do the sum() or the squaring yourself in the objective function.

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