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A common requirement in optimal control problems arising in autonomous navigation is that the decision variables are constrained to be outside certain sets. Such set exclusion constraints represent obstacles that must be avoided by the motion system. This paper presents a simple and efficient method for solving optimization problems with general set exclusion and implicit constraints. The method embeds the set exclusion constraints in a ...

Channel selection or electrode placement for neural decoding is a commonly encountered problem in electroencephalography (EEG). Since evaluating all possible channel combinations is usually infeasible, one usually has to settle for heuristic methods or convex approximations without optimality guarantees. To date, it remains unclear how large the gap is between the selection made by these approximate methods and the truly optimal selection. The ...

Efficient first-order algorithms for large-scale distributed optimization is the main subject of investigation in this thesis. The algorithms considered cover a wide array of applications in machine learning, signal processing and control. In recent years, a large number of algorithms have been introduced that rely on (possibly a reformulation of) one of the classical splitting algorithms, specifically forward-backward, Douglas-Rachford and ...