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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2007
Filed:
May. 04, 2001
Hsiao-dong Chiang, Ithaca, NY (US);
Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Ithaca, NY (US);
Bigwood Technology, Inc., Ithaca, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for obtaining a global optimal solution of general nonlinear programming problems includes the steps of first finding, in a deterministic manner, all stable equilibrium points of a nonlinear dynamical system that satisfies conditions (C1) and (C2), and then finding from said points a global optimal solution. A practical numerical method for reliably computing a dynamical decomposition point for large-scale systems comprises the steps of moving along a search path φ(x)≡{x+ t×ŝ, tε} starting from xand detecting an exit point, x, at which the search path φ(x) exits a stability boundary of a stable equilibrium point xusing the exit point xas an initial condition and integrating a nonlinear system to an equilibrium point x, and computing said dynamical decomposition point with respect to a local optimal solution xwherein the search path is x.