[SciPy-Dev] ltisys.py

[Roberto Bucher]

Thanks Josef for your quick answer.

It's not a problem for me to work under version control. I'm already one of 
the developper of Linux RTAI and in particular I've modified the Scicoslab code 
generator in order to create code for RT systems (RTAI+dsPIC). I'm used to 
work with CVS, GIT and SVN tools.

Of course my code will be released completely under the BSD licence. It is 
still in development, because I'm still looking for Matlab FOSS replacements.
Till now, I've worked with Scicoslab, but Python seems to be a good 
alternative too.
At present, the main problem with the control system toolbox under Python is 
that it is not ready for practical applications: in particular it is not able 
to handle with discrete time systems...

I'll put ASAP two examples on my homepage:
- DC motor with state feedback controller, integrator + reduced order observer
- Inverted pendulum, with LQR state feedback + reduced order observer

My first goal was to demonstrate the possibility to reproduce all my Scicoslab 
systems under Python, and I reached it.

Best regards

Roberto


On Saturday 21 August 2010 21:09:36 josef.pktd at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Roberto Bucher <roberto.bucher at supsi.ch> 
wrote:
> > I'm working on a control system toolbox for python. In particular I've
> > modified some functions of the control system toolbox developed by
> > Richard Murray and I added some new functions.  The first problem is
> > related to the modul ltisys.py that I modified for handling:
> > - MIMO systems (state-space only)
> > - Sampling Time for discrete time system
> > 
> > I've done other modifications to different modul of Richard, who is in
> > CC: - matlab.py
> > - statesp.py
> > - xferfcn.py
> >  in order to implement the following new functions in my yottalab.py
> > modul: - c2d (zoh+bilinear)
> > - d2c (zoh+bilinear)
> > - dare - discrete riccati solution
> > - care - continous riccati solution
> > - dlqr - discrete linear quadratic regulator
> > - ctrb - controllability matrix
> > - acker - ackerman pole placement
> > - minreal - minimal state space representation
> > - dcgain steady state gain for both continous and discrete time systems
> > - tf (casting function)
> > - ss (casting function)
> > 
> > The modified files can be downloaded from my homepage
> > in the python section, but I want to see how I can contribute to put the
> > modifications in the main Scipy distribution.
> 
> I would find it very good if such enhancements go into scipy ltisys.
> It was often requested, and I think we will be able to use them also
> for time series analysis. I stopped looking at it after I figured out
> ltisys only handled single input, mainly continuous time processes.
> And I hope someone finds the time soon to review this (but
> unfortunately I don't have any time at all right now).
> 
> 
> A few questions:
> 
> Do you have your changes under version control? It would make it
> easier to produce a diff and look at the changes.
> 
> Do you have examples that could be converted into tests?
> 
> Licensing:
> scipy and python-control are BSD
> your yottalab.py doesn't have a license statement, but it has to be
> GPL by infection, because of
> "from slycot import sb02od, tb03ad"  since slycot is GPL
> 
> Would it be useful to license your parts of yottalab that don't rely
> on slycot as BSD?
> e.g. if a replacement for slycot could be found.
> 
> or maybe python control also moves to GPL with slycot integration ?
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/python-control/index.php?title=Develo
> per_assignments
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josef
> 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Roberto
> > 
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