Re: Syncope: new object-oriented control package

[Søren Hauberg]

Hi,

Sorry 'bout the late reply...

fre, 16 10 2009 kl. 14:39 +0200, skrev Lukas Reichlin:
> 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.

This sounds great! I don't work in control, so I can't comment on your
work, though. I hope somebody else can help you test this.

> 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.

I don't have any objections to you creating a new package, but is there
a reason why your work doesn't go directly into the current 'control'
package?

>  Could someone please create an  
> empty package with the name "control-oo", "control-rewrite" or similar  
> on the server?

I've given you access to the Octave-Forge SVN, so you can do this
yourself :-)

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