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The control-block-diagram package is a Python Toolbox for drawing block diagrams. It is builduponPylatex, and therefore, can generate Latexfiles and also PDF files. It allows you to construct typical control block diagrams with theusual building blocks, i.e., PI-Controllers, Adders, Multiplier. It is also possible todefine own blocks.

The easiest way to get started with the ControlBlockDiagram Toolbox is to play around with the Hands On Jupyter Notebook. There the most important functions are explained and demonstrated with simple examples.

Hands On Jupyter Notebook

A basic routine is as simple as:

fromcontrol_block_diagramimportControllerDiagramfromcontrol_block_diagramimportPoint,Box,Connectionif__name__=='__main__':doc=ControllerDiagram()box_control=Box(Point(0,0),text='Control')box_block=Box(box_control.position.add_x(3),text='Block')box_diagram=Box(box_block.position.add_x(3),text='Diagram')Connection.connect(box_control.output,box_block.input)Connection.connect(box_block.output,box_diagram.input)doc.save('pdf')doc.show()

The output of this code is:

There are some examples in the examples folder:

• Flux Observer
• FPGA Board
• Induction Motor Controller
• Model Predictive Controller

• Install from PyPI:>>> pip install control-block-diagram

• Install from GitHub source:

git clone git@github.com:upb-lea/control-block-diagram.git cd control-block-diagram# Then eitherpython setup.py install# or alternativelypip install -e .# or alternativelypip install git+https://github.com/upb-lea/control-block-diagram

You also need a latex compiler such as pdfLaTex to create a PDF file. For example, you can get this from the latex distributionMiKTeX.