Re: [python-control-discuss] SF.net python-control commit:[297] trunk/doc

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

Thanks, Roberto.  

Great that you have made use of the python-control toolbox and yottalab to implement some controllers in the lab.  Very cool!

I'll take a look at the alternative versions of c2d, dare and place/MIMO in yottalab and see if we can incorporate those.

-richard

On 24 Mar 2014, at 1:54 , Roberto Bucher <rob...@su...> wrote:

> Thanks Richard for the great job!!!
> 
> In the past weeks I did a presentation of your toolbox to the control
> teachers of the Swiss universities: for this presentation I used your
> toolbox and yottalab to design the controllers for different plants in
> my lab: in particular I controlled a DC motor, the classical inverted
> pendulum and a a "double disks and spring" system. The RT code was
> direcly generated from Python for a Linux machine with the preempt_rt
> patch.
> In my opinion the toolbox is now enough mature to be used a good
> alternative to other system, like Scilab, Scicoslab, Octave and
> (partially) Matlab, not only for educational purposes!
> 
> In my tests I did a double check: In a first phase I look if the results
> of the code can be used for controlling the real plant, in a second
> phase I compare the results of the functions with the ones of Matlab.
> 
> In particular I found some problems with the implementation of "c2d",
> "dare" (-> dlqr) and "place (MIMO systems!). I've implemented some
> alternatives to these commands.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Roberto
>