• Gurobi Staff

Hi Livia,

To model the $$2^z$$ function, you have to use Gurobi general constraint interface. In your particular case, you have to use the genconexpa struct array. There is no example showing exactly this function but the gc_pwl_func.m example shows the usage of the genconexp struct array, which works analogously.

Best regards,
Jaromił

Hi Jaromil,

Thanks for your reply! I'm trying to adapt my problem to the example you sent. But in my case, the objective function is not a linear combination of the design variables, it is a rather complex nonlinear function.

In the example you sent me (simplified below), how can I change m.obj to be a function that has the design variables as arguments?

% Four nonneg. variables x, y, u, v, one linear constraint u + 4*v <= 9m.varnames = {'x', 'y', 'u', 'v'};m.lb = zeros(4, 1);m.ub = +inf(4, 1);m.A = sparse([0, 0, 1, 4]);m.rhs = 9;% Objectivem.modelsense = 'max';m.obj = [2; 1; 0; 0];% Set u \approx exp(x)m.genconexp.xvar = 1;m.genconexp.yvar = 3;m.genconexp.name = 'gcf1';% Set v \approx sqrt(y) = y^0.5m.genconpow.xvar = 2;m.genconpow.yvar = 4;m.genconpow.a = 0.5;m.genconpow.name = 'gcf2';% Parameters for discretization: use equal piece length with length = 1e-3params.FuncPieces = 1;params.FuncPieceLength = 1e-3;% Solve and print solutionresult = gurobi(m, params);printsol(result.objval, result.x(1), result.x(2), result.x(3), result.x(4));

Thanks again!

• Gurobi Staff

Hi Livia,

I am not sure whether I understand your question. Your general constraints define the constraints $$u = \exp(x)$$ and $$v = \sqrt{y}$$. You can now use variables $$u$$ and $$v$$ to, e.g., add $$\exp(x)$$ and $$\sqrt{y}$$ in the objective by

m.obj = [0; 0; 1; 1];