In previous works the authors proposed to use
Hit-and-Run (H&R) versions of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC) algorithms for various problems of control and optimization.
However the results are unsatisfactory for bad sets,
such as level sets of ill-posed functions. The idea of the present
paper is to exploit the technique developed for interior-point
methods of convex optimization, and to combine it with MCMC
algorithms. We present a new modication of H&R method
exploiting barrier functions and its validation. Such approach
is well tailored for sets dened by linear matrix inequalities
(LMI), which are widely used in control and optimization. The
results of numerical simulation are promising.