There have been proposals to add a control theory module. See here for
a recent revival of that:
https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/18460

Would that be a good place to put some of the ideas you are suggesting?

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 13:17, Chanakya Ajit Ekbote <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There are certain functionalities of SymPy such as solving differential 
> equations, transform calculus, integral calculus etc. that a user may use in 
> order to use SymPy for Signal Processing (SP) as well as Control System (CS) 
> applications, however he/she has to entirely code a new method or function 
> that is specific to his/her domain. Moreover, it would require a person with 
> a decent amount of coding knowledge in order to implement the application 
> they want. In addition to that a researcher or a student would just want to 
> enter an expression and get the output he/she wants. Hence I propose the 
> following:
>
> Phase 1: The goal of Phase 1 would be to use SymPy's own existing methods for 
> simple SP and CS applications.
> We update the existing packages such as plotter, transform calculus, solvers 
> etc . in order to cater to SP and CS needs. For example, we'd have to add 
> pole zero plots, magnitude response plots, phase response plots to the 
> plotter package. The alternative would be to create a new package that caters 
> specifically to the needs of SP and CSA. This package would have methods that 
> compute the magnitude response, phase responses, bode plots, phase plots, 
> magnitude plots etc.
> The developments in this phase would target an intermediate student or a 
> novice researcher for basic functionalities.
>
>
> Phase 2: We develop new functionalities for SP and CS applications.
> We would be implementing DFT, Z Transform, Wavelet Transform, Fourier Bessel 
> Transform etc which can be calculated using the calculus as well as transform 
> libraries.
> In addition to that solving differential equations could be done in the 
> Laplace, Fourier or Z Domain (depending on the application), and  the steps 
> could also be displayed (which would help a student a lot).
> The developments in this phase would target an intermediate researcher for 
> advanced functionalities.
>
>
> Phase 3: Add GUI functionalities as well as simulators
> We could add a GUI Bond Graph Tool that would help researchers define a 
> system easily and obtain the response.
> Moreover we could also add a simulator that correctly simulates the output, 
> given certain boundary value conditions.
>
> This is just a rough outline of what I believe would be the ideal approach. 
> All suggestions are welcome, and these phases would be tweaked after the 
> discussion.
>
> I had already started working on Phase 1: The link to the PR is click here.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 10:46:08 AM UTC+5:30, Chanakya Ajit Ekbote 
> wrote:
>>
>> I feel that a new package that focuses on signal processing is required in 
>> SymPy as there are a lot of functionalities that SymPy provides that are not 
>> present in other conventional signal processing libraries. Please refer to 
>> the discussion: 
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/sympy/bRmTmiPYe5I/Wu7FABFtAwAJ
>>  as well as the PR #18419: https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/18419.
>>
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