Re: More summer of code ideas needed!

[Lukas Reichlin]

On 19.03.2013, at 10:40, am304 <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso-2 wrote
>> Simulink is way too much for a summer project. It's not an addition to
>> Octave, but the creation of a whole new program that happens to use
>> Octave. It would be comparable to having a student implement all of
>> Octave during the summer.
> 
> Yes, you're probably right, sorry.
> 
> Another suggestion would be to have, if not a GUI, at least some functions
> to automatically or interactively tune a (PID) controller for a given plant
> (described by a transfer function or a state-space representation), based on
> requirements such as overshoot, rise time, settling time, etc...
> 
> Arnaud

Do you have something in mind like the example script optiPID.m from the 
control package? It minimizes the ITAE criterion, max overshoot and sensitivity 
for a PID controller using an objective function, and can be adapted to other 
criterions.

Lukas