Symbolic optimization of algebraic functions
Masaaki Kanno, Kazuhiro Yokoyama, Hirokazu Anai, Shinji Hara · 2008
This paper attempts to establish a new framework of symbolic optimization of algebraic functions that is relevant to possibly a wide variety of practical application areas. The crucial aspects of the framework are (i) the suitable use of algebraic methods coupled with the discovery and exploitation of structural properties of the problem in the conversion process into the framework, and (ii) the feasibility of algebraic methods when performing the optimization. As an example an algebraic approach is developed for the discrete-time polynomial spectral factorization problem that illustrates the significance and relevance of the proposed framework. A numerical example of a particular control problem is also included to demonstrate the development.