[SciPy-Dev] GSOC 2014: LTI systems & control / ODE integration

[Juan Luis Cano]

Hello all,

This is not my first message to this mailing list but let me introduce 
myself anyway - I'm Juan Luis Cano, a 5th year student of Aeronautical 
Engineering at TU Madrid. I am a self-taught Python programmer, editor 
of the blog Pybonacci about scientific Python in Spanish language and I 
have contributed to SciPy in the past (see 
https://github.com/scipy/scipy/commits/master?author=juanlu001).

I showed interest last year about the ODE integration methods in SciPy, 
and in fact I rewrote the odeint function in modern Fortran 90 using 
f2py (see #2818) but the PR is on hold due to build problems on Windows 
and backwards compatibility issues. There was some discussion on the 
mailing list about totally revamping the integrators interface but it 
halted.

Besides, I polished some functions in the signal.lti package but I 
noticed some limitations while writing an article on PID control with 
SciPy (original in Spanish in 
http://pybonacci.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/teoria-de-control-en-python-con-scipy-ii-control-pid/) 
and wanted to help building a solid framework for control theory within 
SciPy, polishing the LTI class, adding methods to connect several blocks 
and doing time response calculations and perhaps creating a graphical 
user interface.

I would like to work on one (or both) of these topics as part of the 
GSOC program in case they are seen as potentially useful. Any advice on 
narrowing the subject and/or writing a proposal would be greatly 
appreciated.

Regards,

Juan Luis Cano
Aeronautical Engineering
TU Madrid, Spain