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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2006
Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford, CA (US);
Eliot Leonard Wegbreit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford, CA (US);
Eliot Leonard Wegbreit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Strider Labs, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for rapidly determining feasibility of a force optimization problem and for rapidly solving a feasible force optimization problem is disclosed. The method comprises formulating the force optimization problem or force feasibility problem as a convex optimization problem, formulating a primal barrier subproblem associated with the convex optimization problem, and solving the primal barrier subproblem. The method and related methods may also be used to solve each problem in a set of force optimization problems, determine the minimum or maximum force required to satisfy any of a set of force optimization problems, solve a force closure problem, compute a conservative contact force vector, or solve a feasible force optimization problem with bidirectional forces.