Abstract: A complete survey of the application of optimization techniques to the design of mechanisms is given. The survey begins with the work of Da Vinci, Newton, and Chebychev and progresses to the ...

Abstract: Transformation or penalty function techniques have enjoyed wide popularity for the solution of nonlinear programming problems in recent years. Many methods have been proposed in this class, ...

Abstract: A new method of generating solutions for the matrix method of linkage analysis is considered. Optimization techniques are used to close the matrix loop equations iteratively until they are ...

Abstract: This paper presents Schuldt’s Method of Multipliers for nonlinear programming problems. The basics of this new exterior penalty function method are discussed with emphasis upon the ease of ...