What Is VO2 Max and Should You Care About Yours?

VO2 max is an intimidating word for an easy-to-understand biometric: It’s how well your body uses oxygen when you push ...
IEEE

Comparing cost functions for the optimal control of robotic manipulators using Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle

Abstract: In the framework of Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle, the choice of the Hamiltonian has an impact on the resulting controls. In this framework, the cost function composes the Hamiltonian which ...
Scientific Research Publishing

B. O. Shubert, “A Sequential Method Seeking the Global Maximum of a Function,” SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1972, pp. 379-388. doi:10.1137/0709036

ABSTRACT: Piyavskii’s algorithm maximizes a univariate function satisfying a Lipschitz condition. We propose a modified Piyavskii’s sequential algorithm which maximizes a univariate differentiable ...