Re: Mentoring for Control System Toolbox development (Was: Google's "summer of code")

[David Bateman]

Raymond E. Rogers wrote:
> David Bateman wrote:
>   
> > Carlos Villegas wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi, I work with control system theory in matlab normally and I'm trying
> > > to migrate to octave. I've found that the transfer functions cannot be
> > > multi-dimensional (e.g. 2-input 3-output) and by result no bode plots,
> > > stepplots or similar can be obtained. I was wondering if an acceptable
> > > project could be taken out of this and if somebody would be interested
> > > in mentoring.
> > >
> > >       
> > I'm not really an expert on control theory and so it makes no sense for
> > me to be your mentor. I hope one of them is reading this thread, but it
> > I take the opportunity of changing the title in the hope you get a
> > better response. You might also be able to track the control system
> > toolbox guru's of octave with the mailing list search engine.
> > Unfortunately the official one is out of order at the moment, but you
> > can use the one on gmane at one of
> >
> > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.general
> > http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers
> >
> > etc. Use the search box at the box of the page with something like
> > "control" as the keyword should identify those interested in the control
> > system toolbox..
> >
> > Best of Luck
> > David
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://www.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/help-octave
> >
> >
> >     
> I am hardly an expert but I do know the concepts and have used the state variable processes in 
> Octave.  What are your questions?  As I recall I had no real problem implementing extensive 
> plotting (I like to see things) in this package when I was retargeting a sys-id package.
> If you find a real expert use her/him; I have merely picked up knowledge over several years in 
> electronics.
>   
Ray,

This is under the Google "Summer of Code" student program, where 
students are paid to implement open source code. I believe Carlos is 
looking for someone experience to supervise his work under this program, 
basically like under any internship. If you have good ideas of how the 
control systems toolbox might be reworked for MIMO systems, etc, and 
have the time to dedicate to help arlos, then you'd probably make a good 
mentor for him.

regards
David