Development and verification of a MATLAB driver for the SNOPT optimization software
Shawn Gano, Víctor Pérez, John E. Renaud · 19th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference · 2001
The MATLAB program and computing language has seen increased usage both in industry and academia in recent years. This is due to the ease in which it handles matrices and numerical computations. This computing environment also has an array of toolboxes for different mathematical and engineering tasks (e.g., controls, optimization). These toolboxes provide a general suite of numerical tools within a specific discipline for the user. The toolbox codes are general tools and are not typically as robust or as efficient as state of the art numerical codes develop by advanced users in a given discipline. In this research a MATLAB driver which links an existing robust and efficient optimization program SNOPT is developed and tested. The resulting program and driver have proved to be more efficient than the existing MATLAB toolbox codes for optimization.