In this paper, a numerical method is proposed for solving optimal control problem of Volterra integral equations using radial basis functions (RBFs) for approximating unknown function. Actually, the method is based on interpolation by radial basis functions including multiquadrics (MQs), to determine the control vector and the corresponding state vector in linear dynamic system while minimizing...

This paper proposesa new class of unit quaternion curves in SO(3). A general method is developed that transforms a curve in R3 (defined as a weighted sum of basis functions) into its unit quaternion analogue in SO(3). Applying the method to well-known spline curves (such as Bézier, Hermite, and B-spline curves), we are able to construct various unit quaternion curves which share many important ...

A method based on extended cubic B-spline is proposed to solve a linear system of second-order boundary value problems. In this method, two free parameters, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], play an important role in producing accurate results. Optimization of these parameters are carried out and the truncation error is calculated. This method is tested on three examples. The example...

While the product of finitely many convex functions has been investigated in the field of global optimization, some fundamental issues such as the convexity condition and the LegendreFenchel transform for the product function remain unresolved. Focusing on quadratic forms, this paper is aimed at addressing the question: When is the product of finitely many positive definite quadratic forms conv...

New algorithms for the classical problem of fairing cubic spline curves and bicubic spline surfaces are presented. To fair a cubic spline curve or a bicubic spline surface with abnormal portions, the algorithms (automatically or interactively) identify thèbad' data points and replace them with new points produced by minimizing the strain energy of the new curve or surface. The proposed algorith...

This paper describes the use of cubic splines for interpolating monotonic data sets. Interpolating cubic splines are popular for fitting data because they use low-order polynomials and have C2 continuity, a property that permits them to satisfy a desirable smoothness constraint. Unfortunately, that same constraint often violates another desirable property: monotonicity. The goal of this work is...

In [4] the first named author discussed the explicit solutions of the cubic spline interpolation problems. We are now concerned with quintic spline functions. Let 5B[0, n] denote the class of quintic spline functions S(x) defined in the interval [0, n] and having the points 0, 1, • • • , n — 1 as knots. This means that the restriction of S(x) to the interval (*>, J > + 1 ) (P = 0, • • • , n — \...

Splines are part of the standard toolbox for the approximation of functions and curves in Rd . Still, the problem of finding the spline that best approximates an input function or curve is ill-posed, since in general this yields a “spline” with an infinite number of segments. The problem can be regularized by adding a penalty term for the number of spline segments. We show how this idea can be ...

We study the space of binary cubic and quadratic forms over the ring of integers O of an algebraic number field k. By applying the theory of prehomogeneous vector spaces founded by M. Sato and T. Shintani, we can associate the zeta functions for these spaces. Applying these zeta functions, we derive some density theorems on the distributions of discriminants of cubic algebras of O. In the case ...