As I understand you are looking fot the local minima of the functions. You can use the function islocalmin. This will return a logical array with values 1 (true) when it is a lcoal minima.
f= exp(-sqrt(x))+ 0.1*sin(3x)
TF = islocalmin(f)
plot(x,f,x(TF),f(TF),'r*')
This will return the local mimima of the functions (that could be 1,2 or more).
