Who doesn’t know (and use) Matlab? Personally, I used to take great advantage of its powerful toolboxes to achieve my hydraulics-related tasks. But in France I made an interesting discovery.
I’ve been using this open-source Matlab alternative during the past six month and, to say the truth, I’m quite satisfied.
I have done some signal filtering, some statistics, some plotting stuff for my job without major problems… well, you have to know you are handling with a non commercial tool. Anyway, If your budget is limited, think about it.
I think that what makes this project different (and more reliable in theory) is the list of non-negligible sponsors, members of the SciLab Consortium, and the (not-so-well manged) directory of additional contributed toolboxes, among which I could try only the HYDROGR one, and just for trivial purpose.
So, let me know what you think about that, in the case you tested it.
I need to test it, especially Scicos, the toolbox for block diagram simulation (i.e. the free simulink).
Do you know if there is a toolbox for calibration of scicos model? something like Parameter estimation of simulink?
I’m sorry, but I can’t help you
All I can do is redirect you to the official forum, because I never tried Scicos:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.soft-sys.math.scilab/
consider also the official Scicos page