RMM, 23 May 09
This directory contains the source code for the Python Control Systems Library (python-control). This package provides a library of standard control system algorithms in the python programming environment.
Pip is a python packaging system. It can be installed on debian based linux distros with the command:
sudo apt-get install pip
Pip can then be used to install python-control:
sudo pip install control
Standard python package installation:
python setup.py install
To see if things are working, you can run the script examples/secord-matlab.py (using ipython -pylab). It should generate a step response, Bode plot and Nyquist plot for a simple second order linear system.
You can also run a set of unit tests to make sure that everything is working correctly. After installation, run:
python runtests.py
Routines from the Slycot wrapper are used for providing the functionality of several routines for state-space, transfer functions and robust control. Many parts of python-control will still work without slycot, but some functionality is limited or absent, and installation of Slycot is definitely recommended. The Slycot wrapper can be found at:
https://github.com/jgoppert/Slycot
and can be installed with:
sudo pip install slycot