Ask HN: Alternative to Matlab for control system design?

1 pointmechanician4 comments

Specifically I'm looking for a (free) language that has available add-ons for things like transfer functions, bode plots, LTI simulations, etc.

Also look here for extra packages for octave: http://octave.sourceforge.net/

Thanks. Since I have started to learn Python (for a different application), is there any way to get these Matlab-like functions in Python?

have a look and see if scipy/numpy have what you want

matplotlib comes pretty close to the nice plots if you need those