How to use fminsearch with several parameters in the right way?

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baxbear 2016-7-7

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Hello,

it is the first time that I try use some optimization and somebody told me it is a good idea to use fminsearch?

Aim:

I got a function sumDist = transDist(feat1, feat2, tP) and I want to optimize it:

y = fminsearch (@(x) transDist(this.featP1, this.featP2, x), 0);

0 would be the optimal result of the function but it is like unreachable. x is an vector of size 9 where value 4 to 6 are angles in radians, don't know if i need to limit the value range and how i could do this. As result i would like to get the x vector for the best result fminsearch was able to find.

I hope you can help me a little bit with that.

Thank you in advance.

Greetings,

me

@Edit1 (2016-07-08 08:17:00) fminsearch should be fine but 1 thing I noticed in the first comment is

x0 = zeros(9,1);

but I don't know what a good value for the input could be. I only know that 0 as a result would be the best possible solution for the output. My function calculates a scaling, rotation, transformation in 3D until featP1 fit best to featP2. Could you help me solve this problem, because if this doesn't work I got no Idea how to make it work.

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Walter Roberson 2016-7-7

fminsearch does not get "confused" by multiple identical optimum: it just randomly ends up in one of the basins.

Walter Roberson 2016-7-8

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If you have no idea what a good starting point is, then you might as well pick a value at random out of the entire range of values possible for that position. For example,

RR = @(A,B) A + rand()*(B-A);
x0 = [RR(-500,750), RR(0, realmax), RR(-pi,pi), RR(-pi,pi), RR(-pi,pi)];

This would construct a vector in which the first element was chosen uniform randomly over (-500,750), the second over (0, 1E+308), and the other three over -pi to +pi.

And then if you don't get a nice result, you can randomly generate again...

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baxbear 2016-7-10

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x0 = zeros(9,1);

and

x0 = rand(9, 1);

are the best ways to use my matlab function, 0 does not work because then fminsearch does not know that I am looking for a vector of size 9.

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Marc 2016-7-11

This is not an "accepted" answer to the question. Nobody knows what you are looking for because your question was pretty vague. There are well known reasons why a Nelder Mead Simplex approach works and doesn't work. There is also a good reason why The Mathworks Co. sells an Optimaztion and Global Optimaztion toolbox.