Useful links

👨‍💻 Recommended open-source softwares

• Octave - Free alternative to MATLAB, with a language that is mostly compatible.

  • xeus-octave - Jupyter kernel for Octave

• Mathics - Free alternative to Mathematica, with a language that is mostly compatible.

• https://jerryi.github.io/wljs-docs/ - Freeware web-based Notebook Interface for Wolfram Language.

• http://matheclipse.org/ - computer algebra language and Java symbolic math library.

• Semidefinite programming in Python - A collection of Python libraries that can be used to solve LMIs and other optimization problems.

• Python-Control - Python module that implements basic operations for analysis and design of feedback control systems.

• Harold - Another open-source systems and controls toolbox for Python3.

• https://github.com/JuliaControl/ControlSystems.jl - Control system toolbox for https:julialang.org/.

• GurobiLink - Gurobi interface with Wolfram Language.

🏫 Didactic and drawing resources

🚴 Control theory

• https://resourcium.org/ - A collection of control and automation resources.

• http://janismac.github.io/ControlChallenges/ - Simulate some control algorithms to different control problems in Javascript.

• Automatic Control with Interactive Tools - Course with free and interactive software.

• Interactive course for control theory - Course with interactive Jupyter notebooks.

• https://lpsa.swarthmore.edu/Animations/ - Javascript tool for animation of linear physical systems

• https://github.com/Nukleon84/pyflowsheet - Python package to create process flow diagrams (PFD)

• http://www.nonlinearbenchmark.org/index.html - Database of systems for benchmarking nonlinear system identification algorithms.

• https://cheever.domains.swarthmore.edu/ - Interactive demos for teaching classical control of linear systems.

• https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/topic.html?topic=Control+Theory&limit=20 - Mathematica demonstrations related to control theory.

• https://github.com/MathWorks-Teaching-Resources/Virtual-Controls-Laboratory - Collection of virtual control laboratories implemented on Simulink.

• https://unilabs.dia.uned.es/ - A network formed by many universities that share their laboratory resources for education purposes.

• 📺 YouTube Channels:

  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTA4wwZkqdBS1CyQR_g6ntw/ - Prof. Luis Aguirre (UFMG), Portuguese only

  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm5mt-A4w61lknZ9lCsZtBw/ - Prof. Steve Brunton

  • https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures - Brian Douglas channel

• 📚 Free books:

  • Engenharia de Controle: Teoria e Prática (Portuguese only)

  • Introdução Teoria de Controle e Programação Dinâmica (Portuguese only)

  • Contraction Theory for Dynamical Systems

  • Lectures on Network Systems

• http://controlcartoons.com/ - A cartoon tour of control theory

• DiaGraph - Useful to draw block diagrams:

🤖 Robotics

• Robotarium project - A remotely accessible swarm robotics research platform that remains freely accessible to anyone.

• OFFWORLD GYM - Open-access physical robotics environment for real-world reinforcement learning benchmarking and research.

• roboton.io - Roboton.io is a virtual robot-competition platform that can be used entirely from the browser.

🔋Electronics

• Wokwi - Simulate circuits in your browser.

• Diode - 3D circuit simulator. Can be used to program Arduino boards.

• https://www.falstad.com/circuit/ - Online analog circuit simulator

• simcirjs - Digital circuit simulator in HTML5 and Javascript

• Yosys2digitaljs - Online SystemVerilog synthetizer

• SKiDL - SKiDL is a module that allows you to compactly describe the interconnection of electronic circuits and components using Python.

• Wireviz - WireViz is a tool for easily documenting cables, wiring harnesses and connector pinouts. It takes plain text, YAML-formatted files as input and produces beautiful graphical output

🧰 Miscellaneous

• nbinteract - Generate Interactive Web Pages From Jupyter Notebooks. See also this tutorial.

• RISE - Turn Jupyter notebooks into slideshow

• ObservableHQ - Interactive notebooks with Javascript. For an interesting example, see notebook(https:observablehq.com@patrickmineaultstabilizing-the-cart-pole-inverse-pendulum-using-lqr).

• Jupyter{book} - Build books with Jupyter

• MathBox - Presentation-quality WebGL math graphing (see also How to use Jupyter with MathBox2 plots)

• EulerTool - Online editor for Manim, an animation engine for explanatory math videos

• Jupyter-Manim - Jupyter notebook magic to integrate manim within output cells.

• Math Inspector - A visual programming environment for scientific computing.

• CindyJS - A framework to create interactive (mathematical) content for the web.

• https://tigyog.app/ - Create interactive courses online.

• SageMathCell - SageMathCell can be used to embed Sage computations into any webpage.

• Wolfram Demonstrations Project - Database of interactive demonstrations made with Mathematica.

• MATLAB Grader - Automatically grade MATLAB code in any learning environment

• For recording and creating online courses:

  • https://www.grapic.co/ - Collaborate on real whiteboards and notebooks in remote and hybrid meetings.

  • https://sanas.ai/ - Allow speakers to speak in different accents

  • https://www.descript.com/ - Edit audio by editing text. (English only)

  • https://www.narakeet.com/ - Use markdown syntax to create video clips from images, add captions, and life-like narration audio from your text. (Has Portuguese narration)

  • https://www.synthesia.io/ - Automatically redub videos (and even edit the mouth movements) to other languages with A.I.

  • https://www.clonedub.com/ - Convert audio into other languages using the same voices. Can be used to removed strong accent.

🔬 Open science and reproducibility resources

• SHERPA - Database of publisher's archiving policies.

• https://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-tools-and-ieee-article-templates/about-managing-your-data/ - How to share your data and code on IEEE Xplore.

• https://anonymous.4open.science/ - For anonymization of GitHub repositories