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Examples of how to use Drake in your own project.
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Python Project Example #9

Closed stonier closed 6 years ago

stonier commented 7 years ago

We should probably also exemplify how to pull in an installed drake and use it inside a python project.

@sammy-tri are there pure python only users of drake?

sammy-tri commented 7 years ago

There are parts of director which interact with parts of drake only through the python interface... but I can't think of an example of a project which only uses drake through python off hand.

dmsj commented 7 years ago

FWIW, at Draper we would like a pure python workflow for working with drake and pytorch for learning manipulation strategies.

I would really like a 'setup.py' to install drake for use with a specific python installation. Even better would be a conda package ;-)

I think there are quite a few applications which would be enabled with a really simple, easy-to-install python interface to Drake.

stonier commented 7 years ago

Be interested to learn how you wish to have those two working together. @dmsj are you on slack?

dmsj commented 7 years ago

@stonier yup - i'm on Drake Developers. I'll message you there.

re: use-case - To begin with, we would like to be able to simulate a dynamic system (with contact) and control it with a learned policy implemented in pytorch. We would use the sim for training as well as evaluation.

RussTedrake commented 7 years ago

cc @EricCousineau-TRI -- he's about to prioritize cleaning up and expanding the python bindings for drake (including the systems framework).

EricCousineau-TRI commented 6 years ago

Closed via #85.