This routine calls the glpk library to solve a LP/MIP problem. A typical
LP problem has following structure:
[min|max] C x
s.t.
Ax ["="|"<="|">="] b
{x <= UB}
{x >= LB}
The calling syntax is:
[XMIN,FMIN,STATUS,EXTRA]=glpkmex(Sense,C,A,B,CTYPE,LB,UB,... VARTYPE,PARAM,LPSOLVER,SAVE)
Why do People Program?
Each person can have his own reason for programming but I can tell you that programming is one of the best ways to gain a deep understanding of computers and computer technology. Learning to program makes you understand why computers and computer programs work the way they do. It also puts some Sense into you about how hard it is to create software.
1.2. What is C++ & OOP?
C++ is an extended version C. C was developed at Bell Labs. in 1978.
The BTS5016SDA is a one channel high-side power switch in PG-TO252-5-11 package providing embedded
protective functions.
The power transistor is built by a N-channel vertical power MOSFET with charge pump. The design is based on
Smart SIPMOS chip on chip technology.
The BTS5016SDA has a current controlled input and offers a diagnostic feedback with load current Sense and a
defined fault signal in case of overload operation, overtemperature shutdown and/or short circuit shutdown.
Over the past ten years there has been a revolution in the devel-
opment and acceptance of mobile products. In that period, cel-
lular telephony and consumer electronics have moved from the
realm of science fiction to everyday reality. Much of that revolu-
tion is unremarkable – we use wireless, in its broadest Sense, for
TV remote controls, car keyfobs, travel tickets and credit card
transactions every day. At the same time, we have increased the
number of mobile devices that we carry around with us. However,
in many cases the design and function of these and other static
products are still constrained by the wired connections that they
use to transfer and share data.
Over the past ten years there has been a revolution in the devel-
opment and acceptance of mobile products. In that period, cel-
lular telephony and consumer electronics have moved from the
realm of science fiction to everyday reality. Much of that revolu-
tion is unremarkable – we use wireless, in its broadest Sense, for
TV remote controls, car keyfobs, travel tickets and credit card
transactions every day.
This book is focused on designing and developing Representational State Transfer (REST)
platforms in Rails. REST is the architectural style of the Web, consisting of a set of
constraints that, applied to components, connectors, and data elements, constitute the
wider distributed hypermedia system that we know today: the World Wide Web.
There are a few good reasons why it makes more Sense to build platforms instead of just
products or applications. Platforms are like ecosystems interconnecting different
applications, services, users, developers, and partners. Platforms foster innovation through
the inputs of their direct collaborators. By providing application programming interfaces
(APIs) and software development kits (SDKs), platforms are more customer driven.
The purpose of this book is to help anyone involved in small-scale geophys-
ical surveys. It is not a textbook in the traditional Sense, in that it is designed
for use in the field and concerns itself with practical matters – with the-
ory taking second place. Where theory determines field practice, it is stated,
not developed or justified. For example, no attempt is made to explain why
four-electrode resistivity works where two-electrode surveys do not.
This book was written by Michael Margolis with Nick Weldin to help you explore the
amazing things you can do with Arduino.
Arduino is a family of microcontrollers (tiny computers) and a software creation envi-
ronment that makes it easy for you to create programs (called sketches) that can interact
with the physical world. Things you make with Arduino can Sense and respond to
touch, sound, position, heat, and light. This type of technology, often referred to as
physical computing, is used in all kinds of things, from the iPhone to automobile elec-
tronics systems. Arduino makes it possible for anyone—even people with no program-
ming or electronics experience—to use this rich and complex technology.
Building a robot and enabling it to Sense its environment is a wonderful way to
take your Arduino knowledge to the next level. In writing this book, I have brought
together my love for invention and my experience with electronics, robotics and
microcontrollers. I hope you have as much pleasure building and enhancing your
robot as I did developing the techniques contained in this book.
The basic topic of this book is solving problems from system and control theory using
convex optimization. We show that a wide variety of problems arising in system
and control theory can be reduced to a handful of standard convex and quasiconvex
optimization problems that involve matrix inequalities. For a few special cases there
are “analytic solutions” to these problems, but our main point is that they can be
solved numerically in all cases. These standard problems can be solved in polynomial-
time (by, e.g., the ellipsoid algorithm of Shor, Nemirovskii, and Yudin), and so are
tractable, at least in a theoretical Sense. Recently developed interior-point methods
for these standard problems have been found to be extremely efficient in practice.
Therefore, we consider the original problems from system and control theory as solved.