fmincon function weird error

Hello,

I am wondering why am I getting this weird error:

Error using myfun
Too many input arguments.

Error in fmincon (line 631)
      initVals.f = feval(funfcn{3},X,varargin{:});

Although my function myfun has only one argument that is x, but looks like the implementation of fmincon calls it with 3!

Help please

[Zhang lu]

show your all code please

[seldeeno]

All my code is large (4 long files) but the related parts are as follows: In the first file this is the call to fmincon, with initialization:

for i=1:NP
    pop(i,:)=XRmin+(XRmax-XRmin).*rand(1,D);
end

Call to the function:

[temppop,tempval,exitflag,output] = fmincon(@myfun,xx,[],[],[],[],...
                    XRmin(1,:),XRmax(1,:),@mycon,opts,varargin{:});

This is the function that is referenced:

function f = myfun(x)
  [f, c, ceq] = mlbsuite(x, 38, 0, 'g16');
  f = - f; % because we want to minimize and its a MAX problem
  return
end

And this is mycon:

    function [c,ceq] = mycon(x)
      [f, c, ceq] = mlbsuite(x, 38, 0, 'g16');

Thanks

Answer 1

[Matt J]

The varargin{:} that you are passing to FMINCON are being passed to myfun and mycon as extra arguments. However, the input signature of these functions is written only to accept a single input argument x.

If the extra varargin parameters are not needed by your objective/constraints, then remove them. If they are needed, then passing them through varargin is an outdated method. See here for the newer techniques

http://www.mathworks.com/help/optim/ug/passing-extra-parameters.html

[seldeeno]

Are you talking about fmincon or myfun? I am just passing x to myfun, but in fmincon it is calling my function with extra parameters as you can see from the error and that is what is making me dont understand this

[Matt J]

I'm talking about FMINCON. If you don't want FMINCON to send extra parameters to myfun, then don't call FMINCON with those extra parameters,

 [temppop,tempval,exitflag,output] = fmincon(@myfun,xx,[],[],[],[],...
                    XRmin(1,:),XRmax(1,:),@mycon,opts); %omit varargin{:}