On Jun 24, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Akshay Morye <[email protected]> wrote:
> More information is as follows:
> No. of unknowns: 3. These are the values of the pan angle, the tile angle and
> the focal length in meters to be optimized.
> Differentiable: Yes.
> Analytical Derivative: Not available.
> Local Optimum sufficient: Yes.
> Non Linear constraints: Yes. The number of constraints increases with the
> number of targets to be imaged. That being said, I want to start off with a
> very simple scenario where there's 1 target, and 1 camera.
With such a small number of variables, derivative-free methods (e.g. COBYLA, or
AUGLAG with BOBYQA) should be workable, although you could also try something
like SLSQP with finite-difference derivative approximations. (Not sure why you
can't take derivatives analytically.)
Steven
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