Re: Root Locus Analysis

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 11:00 PM Fábio Molinar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a Controls Engineer who used to use Matlab quite frequently at the
> University to analyze, among other things, system's stability. I am now
> reading again some theoretical books on control theory to refresh my mind
> again with some of the theories and concepts I haven't used for a while.
>
> But since I became a python programmer and enthusiast, I am doing this
> review while using SciPy to program some tests and examples. And I am
> really enjoying using SciPy to code some of my scripts. Although I just
> started using it, I can't stress enough how much fun and how useful the
> scipy.signal package is.
>
> But, during my theory review I came upon the Root Locus Analysis and, to
> my disappointment, I didn't find support for it on the scipy.signal
> package. *Is anyone aware if there is someone working on implementing
> Root Locus analysis into the scipy.signal package*?
>

Not that I am aware of.


> I know that there is another python package called "control" which has
> support for many control analysis tools, including Root Locus analysis, but
> I would like to avoid installing yet another package into my python
> environment. Especially because installing the "control" python package
> isn't that straight-forward and requires a bunch of other
> packages/libraries.
>

python-control may be your best bet. If you're on Windows yes, the Slycot
dependency will be very hard to install. On other platforms it should be
easy, especially if you use conda (conda-forge packages for macOS and Linux
are available).

Cheers,
Ralf




> Yours sincerely,
>
> *Fábio Thomaz Molinar*
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