Venkat Raghavan V.C. wrote:

Hi all,

I am new to scipy and python. I have some experience in programming in C, and compiling stuff. I do have good control systems knowledge, including the math!

I would like to write a Control Systems module for scipy, similiar to the one in Matlab. I have done quite a bit of programming in Matlab, though I don't think that's going to help me out in this regard, except maybe regarding design.

Fantastic!

The problem is, how do I get started off? I have about 3 months of time during summer which I intend to have finished this off. I would be grateful if someone gives me a general overview on how to go about it.

Not knowing anything specific about control theory codes, I can really only give some general advice. And in fact, most of the advice I can give is to use f2py wherever possible! I think your code would probably go into its own scipy.control subpackage. Other than that, look around scipy for analagues to mimic.

I have found this netlib library, http://www.netlib.org/ieeecss/cascade/ after minimal searching. I also know of the scipy api docs. I just wanted to build a roadmap before I get started off!

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