% Section 4.3.1: Compute and display the Chebyshev center of a 2D polyhedron % Boyd & Vandenberghe, "Convex Optimization" % Joëlle Skaf - 08/16/05 % (a figure is generated) % % The goal is to find the largest Euclidean ball (i.e. its center and % radius) that lies in a polyhedron described by linear inequalites in this % fashion: P = {x : a_i'*x <= b_i, i=1,...,m} where x is in R^2 % Generate the input data a1 = [ 2; 1]; a2 = [ 2; -1]; a3 = [-1; 2]; a4 = [-1; -2]; b = ones(4,1); % Create and solve the model cvx_begin variable r(1) variable x_c(2) maximize ( r ) a1'*x_c + r*norm(a1,2) <= b(1); a2'*x_c + r*norm(a2,2) <= b(2); a3'*x_c + r*norm(a3,2) <= b(3); a4'*x_c + r*norm(a4,2) <= b(4); cvx_end % Generate the figure x = linspace(-2,2); theta = 0:pi/100:2*pi; plot( x, -x*a1(1)./a1(2) + b(1)./a1(2),'b-'); hold on plot( x, -x*a2(1)./a2(2) + b(2)./a2(2),'b-'); plot( x, -x*a3(1)./a3(2) + b(3)./a3(2),'b-'); plot( x, -x*a4(1)./a4(2) + b(4)./a4(2),'b-'); plot( x_c(1) + r*cos(theta), x_c(2) + r*sin(theta), 'r'); plot(x_c(1),x_c(2),'k+') xlabel('x_1') ylabel('x_2') title('Largest Euclidean ball lying in a 2D polyhedron'); axis([-1 1 -1 1]) axis equal