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R_using non linear regression with constraints

Dear Dr Nash;
I have version 2017.2.19 of nlsr on my Mac. Not sure what version is throwing errors.
I think of such problems as potentially searching for the maximum along a constraint boundary as a problem at an intersection of a family 2 surfaces in the "a cross b" space, in this case the surface ( a*b = 1000 ) and the family of curves that are implicitly defined by a*b*(1-exp(-b*r*t)) with r fixed and t <- mydata$x.

The intersection of these two geometric structures ( a constraint surface and a family parametrized by a and b) is in my construction  the problem domain.

I can see where an algorithm might erroneously return a "satisfied" results when it was following an iterative path to the edge of the constraint boundary but was prematurely "seeing the task as complete". Can you comment on the logical difficulties and solutions to surmounting such error after such an event occurs?

Sincerely;
David Winsemius
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA