[python-control-discuss] status update

[Richard M. <mu...@cd...>]

A couple of updates on status of the the python-control package, related to the commit earlier today:

* Ryan Krauss has sent me his control.py package that he uses for his class at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.  He has implemented functions for continuous to discrete time conversion and root locus plus.  Ryan's code is now in trunk/external/control.py and Ryan has graciously given us permission to incorporate functions into the python-control package.

* Roberto Bucher has sent me his yottalab.py package that has a number of functions for state space computations in continuous and discrete time.  This code is in trunk/external/yottalab.py.  Roberto has also give us permission to incoporate functions into the python-control library.

* I've added a pade() command developed by Sawyer Fuller at Caltech, using the description in Golub and Van Loan.  This code is in trunk/src/delay.py.

* A group of students at Princeton (Lauren Padilla, Kevin Chen and Steve Brunton) are working on a class project this term and will be helping to implement some additional functions in the library.  I've encouraged them to use this list to send out thoughts and ideas about their plans.

* In integrating some of the functions from Ryan and Roberto, I've made various changes to things and fixed a couple of bugs.  See trunk/ChangeLog for details.

That's it for now.  Comments and feedback is always welcome.

-richard