Using cell arrays as a variable in CVX

I want to minimize the objective function 2-norm of (A*D*v-g) over all possible filter banks h: , where the variable, h, is a cell array and is used as input to the function that calculates D. The cell array, h, has three cells, each containing a vector (filter) of length 3.

I am not sure if CVX can handle a cell array as a variable, but if it does, how to write it? Searching the web and CVX resources has not been successful.

Thank you,

[Walter Roberson]

This appears to refer to the third-party product http://cvxr.com/cvx/

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

No, cell arrays cannot be used as variables in cvx. Look in section 4.2 of the user manual http://cvxr.com/cvx/doc/CVX.pdf and see "Variables can be real or complex scalars, vectors, matrices, or n-dimensional arrays." Notice there is no mention of cell arrays.

You will need to create separate variables from the three elements of the cell array and use those separate variables.

[Beverly Grunden]

Thank you. I will try that.