Scilab Textbook Companions [Focus on Education]

Author

Braatz, Richard

Volume

34

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

Jun-14

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The purpose of this column is to announce the availability of computer programs as a companion for the examples in many of the textbooks used in courses for teaching control engineers [1]. The computer programs are written in Scilab, which is free open-source software for numerical computations originally developed at Inria [2] and currently managed by Scilab Enterprises [3]. Scilab is an alternative high-level programming language to Matlab, with similar functionalities such as linear algebra, two- and three-dimensional visualization, optimization, statistics, signal processing, dynamic simulation, and control systems analysis and design.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; control engineering computing; control engineering education; high level languages; mathematics computing; public domain software; teaching; Matlab; Scilab enterprise; Scilab textbook companion; computer program; free open source software; high-level programming language; numerical computation; teaching control engineer; Control engineering education; Education courses; Programming;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Control Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1066-033X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCS.2014.2308692

Filename

6815798