Re: fitting circle to data

[Gastón Araguás]

Sorry for the noise, here ist

G = @(x,a) (x(:,1) - a(1)).^2 + (x(:,2) - a(2)).^2 - a(3).^2
[f , p] = leasqr( [xt yt], zeros(size(xt)), pin, G);
p =

   8.2224e-02
   2.4964e+02
   2.3825e+02

thanks again

2009/12/1 Gastón Araguás <address@hidden>:
> Somebody in the list told me that the function i'm using to minimize
> doesn't depends on x
> xt = %data
> yt = %data
>
> F = @(x,a) (xt-a(1)).^2+(yt-a(2)).^2-a(3).^2
>
> so i try to put it in this way
>
> F = @(x,a) (x(1)-a(1)).^2+(x(2)-a(2)).^2-a(3).^2
> pin = [1; 1; 1];
> [f , p] = leasqr([xt yt],zeros(size(xt)),pin,F);
>
> but i get:
> warning: inverse: matrix singular to machine precision, rcond = 7.27849e-18
> error: number of rows must match (1 != 388) near line 324, column 18
> error: evaluating argument list element number 1
> error: evaluating assignment expression near line 324, column 2
> error: called from `leasqr' in file
> `/usr/share/octave/packages/3.0/optim-1.0.5/leasqr.m'
>
> i can't find my mistake, i think the data sizes are ok
>
> size([xt yt])
> ans =
>
>   388     2
>
> size(zeros(size(xt)))
> ans =
>
>   388     1
>
> thank you very much
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Gastón Araguás <address@hidden>
> Date: 2009/12/1
> Subject: Re: fitting circle to data
> To: address@hidden
>
>
> Thank you very much to all. This code is working well now:
>
> xt = %data
> yt = %data
>
> F = @(x,a) (xt-a(1)).^2+(yt-a(2)).^2-a(3).^2
> pin = [1;1;1];
> [f , p] = leasqr(xt,yt,pin,F);
>
> p =
>
>   8.2224e-02
>   2.4914e+02
>   2.3772e+02   <---- r
>
> on the other hand this linear version gives good results too, without
> initializations (thanks to Richardson)
>
> A = [ xt yt ones(size(xt))];
> b = xt.^2 + yt.^2;
> c = A\b;
>
> r = sqrt(c(3) + c(1)^2 + c(2)^2);
> r =  238.25
>
> I'm not sure wich of them is the best result, I'll try to test it with
> real and artifcial data
>
> Thank you all again
>
> --
> Gastón Araguás
> ______________________________________________________
> CIII - Centro de Investigación en Informática para la Ingeniería
> Univ. Tecnológica Nacional Facultad Regional Córdoba. Argentina
>
>
>
> --
> Gastón Araguás
> ______________________________________________________
> CIII - Centro de Investigación en Informática para la Ingeniería
> Univ. Tecnológica Nacional Facultad Regional Córdoba. Argentina
>



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Gastón Araguás
______________________________________________________
CIII - Centro de Investigación en Informática para la Ingeniería
Univ. Tecnológica Nacional Facultad Regional Córdoba. Argentina