... most problems in robotics, vision, and arguably every other science or endeavortake on the form of optimization problems. One is that the desired goal may not be achievable, and so we try to ... are said to be-conjugate or -orthogonal to each other. We will henceforth simply say “conjugate” for brevity.In summary, if we can finddirections p p that are mutually conjugate, and if we do ... the procedure, due to Hestenes and Stiefel (Methods of conjugate gradients for solving linear systems,J.Res. Bureau National Standards, section B, Vol 49, pp. 40 9-4 36, 1952), which also incorporates...