The community bonding period is over. The past 3 weeks were really busy because I was in my finals week, final projects and my doctoral research. However, I basically completed everything I wanted to before the “Coding officially begins!”:
It was a busy period.
In concurrence with all the activities that were going on, I had a few discussions with my mentors Douglas Stewart and John Swensen. As, cited in the previous post, the main goal of the project will be to develop the "back-end" capable of performing the same tasks with the current version and for the "front-end", the UI Elements will be used since it is more similar to the older version of sisotool.
Octave already has a package called control created by Lukas Reichlin and is being maintained by Alexander Wilms and Doug Stewart. There is an extended list of function which can be found here: https://octave.sourceforge.io/control/overview.html.
The sisotool project will take advantage of plot functions from control package in order to create the desired interface. The following shows some of the scripts that will be used:
Plot Diagrams
For those who do not know what is bode diagram, it can be defined as a plot that shows the gain and phase response of a LTI system. Here you can find a better explanation about the theory behind it: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Control_Systems/Bode_Plots
The bode function uses a LTI system as an input and the output can be the magnitude, phase and frequency vectors. It also displays the plots. In this community bonding period, I spent quite some time modifying the previous scritp in order to understand how it was coded. Here is some code examples to plot bode diagram and others:
pkg load control % Load control package
s = tf('s');
sys1 = 50*(s+3) / (s^ 3-s^ 2+11*s-51);
sys2 = (s + 10)/(s*(s + 5)*(s + 15)*(s^2 + 25));
sys3 = (s-1) / ( (s-3)*(s+4) )
sys4 = 1/(s^2+2*s+5);
bode(sys1, [1 10]); % Shows the diagram from 1 to 10 Hz
figure;
bode(sys2, 'r');
figure;
bode(sys4, 'r');
figure;
bode(sys1, sys2, sys3, sys4);
figure;
rlocus(sys1);
figure;
nyquist(sys1);
More documentation about these functions can be found here:
Initial layout – sisotool v1
The figure above shows the initial concept for the sisotool. For the initial layout, all the diagrams will be fixed. It will contain: Root Locus, Open-Loop Bode, Nyquist and Step Response plots. In addition, there will be UI Elements with designer applications for the controller.
Repository
I forked and created a repository for the control package, in order to download it, you can:
hg clone https://bitbucket.org/egualter/octave-control