Wednesday 11 October 2017

Optimising with SNOPT

I am trying to get the SNOPT program installed and working, so I can run rocket trajectory optimisations such as this

I found that there is a download available for the student snopt from Netlib. This is version 7.5-1.2 from June 2015.


$ ./snopt_macos --version
Student SNOPT 7.5-1.2 (Jun 2015) (Darwin 10.8.0 x86_32), driver(20150821), ASL(20160325)


Code can also be downloaded from http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/math/netlib/ampl/solvers/ although this will need compiling, and not sure which versions this is. It appears to be verison 7.3 or later from the release notes.