In this work, we solve multipoint boundary value problems where the boundary value conditions are equations using the Newton-Broyden Shooting method (NBSM).The proposed method is tested upon several problems from the literature and the results are compared with the available exact solution. The experiments are given to illustrate the efficiency and implementation of the method. Keywords—Boundar...

The robot soccer game based complex motion control has been widely studied for the moving object capture and shooting. A position prediction algorithm based on global vision is introduced in order to improve the accuracy and robustness of the vision system for tracking moving objects, including a Kalmanfiter, a dynamic window and an obstacle avoidance strategy. This paper deals with the positon...

The stabilized march technique is extended to nonlinear two-point boundary value problems via a new Generalized Brent Method for systems of nonlinear algebraic equations. The resulting algorithms can be used to solve systems of nonlinear rst-order ordinary di erential equations under partially separated nonlinear boundary conditions economically. Numerical results which compare the nonlinear st...

The objective of the present study was to explore players’ perceptions on self-talk (ST) helpfulness and on the mechanisms through which ST facilitated execution, as well as their preferences over the use of motivational and instructional ST during skill execution. Thirty-eight novice basketball players (Mage = 12.8) participated in a regular practice session and used both motivational and inst...

Gun violence is related to substantial morbidity and mortality with surrounding discussions framed and shaped by the media. This study's objective was to explore national news media's reporting of gun violence around a mass shooting. National news pieces were coded according to categories of gun violence, media frames, entities held responsible, responses, and reporting of the public heath appr...

In this overview paper, we first survey numerical approaches to solve nonlinear optimal control problems, and second, we present our most recent algorithmic developments for real-time optimization in nonlinear model predictive control. In the survey part, we discuss three direct optimal control approaches in detail: (i) single shooting, (ii) collocation, and (iii) multiple shooting, and we spec...

Sexual selection favors strategies that enhance the fertilization chances of sperm donors, and sexual conflict can ensue when these adaptations negatively affect sperm recipients (Arnqvist and Rowe 2005). Such conflict often causes counteradaptive coevolution that can result in bizarre mating behaviors in separate-sex (Arnqvist and Rowe 2005) and hermaphroditic species (Michiels and Newman 1998...

This paper presents a stochastic iteration algorithm solving the global illumination problem, where the random sampling is governed by classical importance sampling and also by the Metropolis method. Point pairs where radiance transfer takes place are obtained with random ray shooting. Ray shooting can mimic the source radiance and the geometric factor, but not the receiving capability of the t...

We propose a novel method for construction of rectilinear BSP trees for ray shooting acceleration. The trees are contracted according to certain “preferred” set of rays. Particularly, we study ray sets formed by fixing either the direction or the origin of rays. The constructed trees can be used to answer ray shooting query for arbitrary rays, although with higher expected time complexity for r...

We consider nonlinear boundary value problems with multiple solutions. A method is proposed for the computation of such solutions which depends crucially on known a priori qualitative information about the behavior of the solutions. The method is a two-stage method where the second stage is a shooting method and initial values of the shooting parameters are found in a first stage which approxim...