Hi Everyone I'm Angadh, a third year Ph.D. student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC-Davis and a prospective applicant for the GSoC 2012. and the following are some of the ideas/things that I would like to work on over the course of the summer if given the opportunity. Over the winter quarter, I took a mechanics class and one of it's foci was the usage of the sympy.physics.mechanics module to derive equations of motion for mechanical systems. Over the course of my experience with it, I felt that there were several things that could be worked on to make the dynamics package more robust-
1. One of the things that students encountered in the class was that as our systems got more complex i.e. the number of bodies or degrees of freedom increased, the longer it took to generate the equations. So one of the things I would like to look at would be to optimize the code; to enable it to handle larger expressions. This would involve looking into the .subs() and .diff() to see how they could be improved upon. 2. Currently equations are generated using just one of several methods in mechanics, Kane's formalism. I would like to look into adding atleast another technique- either the Newton-Euler approach or Lagrange's equations. 3. Another thing that I would like to do would be to improve the cross- platform ability of the software i.e. to get the equations of motion generated to be analyzed across various (open source) platforms such as Sage. This may involve automatically updating Sage's version of sympy or even writing a whole new interface for it. 4. A comprehensive documentation effort to make this module more accessible for anyone who intends to use it. I would be extremely grateful if you could let me know your thoughts on these ideas. Thanks Angadh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy?hl=en.
