[SciPy-Dev] Interest in a "controls" scikit?

[Nils Wagner]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:07:10 +0100
  Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:
> 03.02.2012 16:41, Jeffrey Armstrong kirjoitti:
>> After seeing the discussion started by the scikit-signal 
>>proposal on the 
>> list, I wanted to see if there would be interest in a 
>>scikit related to 
>> controls.  While I wouldn't purport to be an expert, I 
>>have managed to 
>> author some control design equation solvers, notably 
>>algebraic Riccati and 
>> Lyapunov equation solvers, and I have a pythonic wrapper 
>>for LAPACK's 
>> Sylvester equation solver.  Combined with much of the 
>>LTI code in 
>> scipy.signal, I think there's a good start here towards 
>>providing some 
>> control system design tools.
> 
> The algebraic Sylvester solver code sounds like it would 
>be a good
> addition to scipy.linalg --- that equation tends to pop 
>up not only in
> control theory, so it would be good to have the LAPACK 
>routine wrapped.
> 
> -- 
> Pauli Virtanen
> 

+1

https://github.com/avventi/Slycot
  
might be useful.

Nils