I’m trying to optimise an objective function with 5 variables, and inside CVX I wrote something like:
cvx_begin
f= some expression
minimize (f)
constraints
cvx_end
I don’t think the implementation is wrong since it was working with smaller number of variables. When I expanded the objective, I got the error “Warning: Empty objective”. Please note that, even with this warning, I’m still able to obtain
some result form CVX, but they are not meaningful.
You use f in the objective function, but haven’t shown us what it is. Perhaps there’s some 'funny business" there? I have no idea whether confusion/trouble can arise as a result of using f as both a variable and function name. Can you change it so that you don’t use f for both variable name and function?
As for the result, is it a feasible solution? The cvx_optval of -1.17404e-08 looks like it is within tolerance of being 0.
Can you show a complete minimal example of program, inputs, and output when it “works”?
Have you tried using SeDuMi? I don’t know whether the successive approximation method might be getting into trouble.
I’m quite suspicious that you’ve declared f as a scalar variable and you seem to be calling it as a function in f(Q_1,Q_2_v). There are multiple quantities here that you haven’t defined for us, such as f_v, Q_2_v, g, etc. so nobody can fully appreciate what you’re doing.
I’m going to mark this one as Nonconvex, because I strongly suspect that it is, but if you provide further clarification we can pull down that tag.