Conversion of "sine function to convex form

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How can I convex the sine function in the objective function?

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Trigonometric functions are neither convex nor concave,. They can only be “convexified” by means of an approximation, such as a suitable Taylor series. The one term Taylor series approximation for sin(x) is x, and the two term Taylor series approximation is x - x^3/6, which is neither convex nor concave. A higher order Taylor series approximation for sin(x) will be neither convex nor concave.

Edit: Now I see you have an absolute value around the sin term. Only the one term Taylor series approximation could be used.

I recommend you use a non-convex nonlinear solver, which you can not do via CVX. You can consider using YALMIP. Why isn't CVX accepting my model? READ THIS FIRST!

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Thank you for your reply.

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Thank you for your reply, I would like to ask whether the sine function can adopt the first-order Taylor expansion, sin(x0)+cos(x0)(x-x0)？ Since the sine function rarely appears in optimization, I don’t know whether it’s reasonable to do so

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How did you deal with it in the end？