- Update to version 0.9.0
* Version 0.9.0 of the Python Control Toolbox
(python-control) contains a number of enhanced features
and changes to functions. Some of these changes may
require modifications to existing user code and, in
addition, some default settings have changed that may
affect the appearance of plots or operation of certain
functions.
* Significant new additions including improvements in the
I/O systems modules that allow automatic interconnection
of signals having the same name (via the interconnect
function), generation and plotting of describing functions
for closed loop systems with static nonlinearities, and a
new optimal control module that allows basic computation
of optimal controls (including model predictive
controllers). Some of the changes that may break use code
include the deprecation of the NumPy matrix type (2D NumPy
arrays are used instead), changes in the return value for
Nyquist plots (now returns number of encirclements rather
than the frequency response), switching the default
timebase of systems to be 0 rather than None (no
timebase), and changes in the processing of return values
for time and frequency responses (to make them more
consistent). In many cases, the earlier behavior can be
restored by calling use_legacy_defaults('0.8.4').
New Features:
* Optimal control module, including rudimentary MPC
control (#549 by murrayrm)
* Describing functions plots (#521 by murrayrm)
* MIMO impulse and step response (#514 by murrayrm)
* I/O system improvements:
* linearize() retains signal names plus new interconnect()
function (#497 by murrayrm)
* Add summing junction + implicit signal interconnection (#517
by murrayrm)
* Implementation of initial_phase, wrap_phase keywords for
bode_plot (#494 by murrayrm)
* Added IPython LaTeX representation method for StateSpace
objects (#450 by roryyorke)
* New dynamics() and output() methods in StateSpace (#566 by
sawyerbfuller)
* FRD systems can now be created from a discrete time LTI system
(#568 by bnavigator)
* Cost and constraints are now allowed for
flatsys.point_to_point() (#569 by murrayrm)