GSoC 2015 application

[Dingjiang Zhou]

Hello Jason,

   I am very interested in the PyDy project since professor Zhaodan Kong have let me know about it a few days ago.

   I don't have a strong background on open source code project, but I am very experienced with rigid body dynamics, especially in a 3D environment, because my research is about quadrotors' dynamics and control, there are many coordinate frames to take care and even the angular velocity and coriolis equations would make people crazy. I used to use Matlab to derive motion equations with symbolic expressions, do integration and differentiation and so on, it worked fine but it was really terrible that a minor mistake in the code will leads to disasters. As I tried out some code in PyDy, I found it is greatly simplified compared to my code, and the results are the same. I could say PyDy is perfect designed for me, but it is too shame for not knowing about it.

   I am interested in the topic "Efficient Code Generation" and "Realtime Simulation". I am experienced with C, C++, Matlab and Python, I can read Fortran but I have never compiled it, and I have never tried Octave. For simulation, I used matlab to simulate my quadrotor flight a lot, not in a way as Simulink, but in the way of code simulation and then plot animations, or code and meanwhile plot animation, kind of "real time" simulation.

Regards,

Dingjiang

[Jason Moore]

Dingjiang,

It sounds like you have a great background for a PyDy project. You don't need to know anything about open source development, we will teach all of that to you during the project.

Note that the application is due in 4 days. You will need to submit a proposal to the Melange system and submit a patch to PyDy or SymPy.

See this document for instructions and information: https://github.com/pydy/pydy/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code#2015

Let us know if you have any questions.

Jason
moorepants.info
+01 530-601-9791

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