% One free point localization % Section 8.7.3, Boyd & Vandenberghe "Convex Optimization" % Joelle Skaf - 10/24/05 % % K fixed points x_1,...,x_K in R^2 are given and the goal is to place % one additional point x such that the sum of the squares of the % Euclidean distances to fixed points is minimized: % minimize sum_{i=1}^K ||x - x_i||^2 % The optimal point is the average of the given fixed points % Data generation n = 2; K = 11; randn('state',0); P = randn(n,K); % minimizing the sum of Euclidean distance fprintf(1,'Minimizing the sum of the squares the distances to fixed points...'); cvx_begin variable x(2) minimize ( sum( square_pos( norms(x*ones(1,K) - P,2) ) ) ) cvx_end fprintf(1,'Done! \n'); % Displaying results disp('------------------------------------------------------------------'); disp('The optimal point location is: '); disp(x); disp('The average location of the fixed points is'); disp(sum(P,2)/K); disp('They are the same as expected!');