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scipy.signal.lti

class scipy.signal.lti(*system)[source]

Continuous-time linear time invariant system base class.

Parameters:

*system : arguments

The lti class can be instantiated with either 2, 3 or 4 arguments. The following gives the number of arguments and the corresponding continuous-time subclass that is created:

Each argument can be an array or a sequence.

Notes

lti instances do not exist directly. Instead, lti creates an instance of one of its subclasses: StateSpace, TransferFunction or ZerosPolesGain.

If (numerator, denominator) is passed in for *system, coefficients for both the numerator and denominator should be specified in descending exponent order (e.g., s^2 + 3s + 5 would be represented as [1, 3, 5]).

Changing the value of properties that are not directly part of the current system representation (such as the zeros of a StateSpace system) is very inefficient and may lead to numerical inaccuracies. It is better to convert to the specific system representation first. For example, call sys = sys.to_zpk() before accessing/changing the zeros, poles or gain.

Examples

>>> from scipy import signal
>>> signal.lti(1, 2, 3, 4)
StateSpaceContinuous(
array([[1]]),
array([[2]]),
array([[3]]),
array([[4]]),
dt: None
)
>>> signal.lti([1, 2], [3, 4], 5)
ZerosPolesGainContinuous(
array([1, 2]),
array([3, 4]),
5,
dt: None
)
>>> signal.lti([3, 4], [1, 2])
TransferFunctionContinuous(
array([ 3.,  4.]),
array([ 1.,  2.]),
dt: None
)

Attributes

dt Return the sampling time of the system, None for lti systems.
poles Poles of the system.
zeros Zeros of the system.

Methods

bode([w, n]) Calculate Bode magnitude and phase data of a continuous-time system.
freqresp([w, n]) Calculate the frequency response of a continuous-time system.
impulse([X0, T, N]) Return the impulse response of a continuous-time system.
output(U, T[, X0]) Return the response of a continuous-time system to input U.
step([X0, T, N]) Return the step response of a continuous-time system.
to_discrete(dt[, method, alpha]) Return a discretized version of the current system.

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