Dear Octave Community I'm an engineering student and I participate in Octave's Control Package development in my free time. The basics of that package were written by an American professor in the first half of the nineties and are not compatible with Matlab's Control Systems Toolbox. They have several inherent problems, mainly because they are not object-oriented (e. g. you can't write sys3 = sys2 * sys1 for a series connection).
In order to overcome these drawbacks, I started development of a new control package. It's completely object-oriented and as Matlab- compatible as possible. What makes it unique is its "model abstraction layer", i. e. commands like append, connect, feedback, series, parallel, horzcat, vertcat, subsref,+, -, * and so on are written model-independently. They all rely on just three (!) basic commands for model manipulation which need to be implemented in ss, tf or zpk. At the moment, my package contains the basics for the handling of state-space and transfer function objects. Before I continue with zero/ pole/gain models and start porting higher-level user functions like "bode" or "step", I'd like to get some feedback in order to hammer out the basics. Therefore, I wish to publish my work as an "extra package" on the octave-forge server (under GPL 3, what else? :-). Luca Favatella (slackydeb), maintainer of the "old" control package, agreed to be the "new" package's maintainer. Could someone please create an empty package with the name "control-oo", "control-rewrite" or similar on the server? AFAIK, Syncope (short for "SYstems aNd COntrol PackagE" and a pun on "Octave") is one of the first octave-forge packages to use object- oriented programming, and comments/feedback/advice would be highly appreciated. I hope that Syncope can supersede the "old" OCST in the long term. http://n.ethz.ch/student/lukasre/download/syncope/ Cheers, Lukas Reichlin BTW: My octave-forge user name is "paramaniac" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
