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This paper presents the robust optimization framework in the modelling language YALMIP, which carries out robust modelling and uncertainty elimination automatically and allows the user to concentrate on the high-level model. While introducing the software package, a brief summary of robust optimization is given, as well as some comments on modelling and tractability of complex convex uncertain optimization problems. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Many control-related problems can be cast as semidefinite programs. Even though there exist polynomial time algorithms and excellent publicly available solvers, the time it takes to solve these problems can be excessive. What many of these problems have in common, in particular in control, is that some of the variables enter as matrix-valued variables. This leads to a low-rank structure in the basis matrices which can be exploited when forming the Newton equations. In this article, we describe how this can be done, and show how our code, called STRUL, can be used in conjunction with the semidefinite programming solver SDPT3. The idea behind the structure exploitation is classical and is implemented in LMI Lab, but we show that when using a modern semidefinite programming framework such as SDPT3, the computational time can be significantly reduced. Finally, we describe how the modelling language YALMIP has been changed in such a way that our code, which can be freely downloaded, can be interfaced using standard YALMIP commands. This greatly simplifies modelling and usage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many optimization problems gain from being interpreted and solved in either primal or dual forms. For a user with a particular application, one of these forms is usually much more natural to use, but this is not always the most efficient. This paper presents an implementation in the optimization modelling tool YALMIP that allows the user to define conic optimization problems in a preferred format, and then automatically derive a symbolic YALMIP model of the dual of this problem, solve the dual, and recover original variables. Applications in flexible generation of sum-of-squares programs, and efficient formulations of large-scale experiment design problems are used as illustrative examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]