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Whole-body Compliant Dynamical Contacts in Cognitive Humanoids
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Simplify installation #60

Closed traversaro closed 9 years ago

traversaro commented 10 years ago

Apparently is very difficult for an average user (for example someone that is not a programmer and is only used to simulink/matlab) to install all the software for running WBI-Toolbox with a simulator. This is a big problem for dissemination. We have to simplify it.

jeljaik commented 10 years ago

Doesn't the super build address somehow this issue?

traversaro commented 10 years ago

For sure, we have to properly document the process of installation of WBI-Toolbox using the superbuild.

jeljaik commented 10 years ago

Good. Today I'm solving as many issues as I can and overhauling the Toolbox overall to make it more user-friendly. I will put documentation wherever possible and address this issue.

jeljaik commented 10 years ago

For this issue I have done the following:

  1. Proper documentation for installation with the codyco-superbuild. Tested on Linux and Mac OS X
  2. There's now a default automatic generation of .ini files for the different robots we currently use, i.e. icubGazeboSim, iCubGenova01, iCubGenova03. This means that there's no longer the need for manually specifying the location of the corresponding urdf files. These are now included in the local context of the WBI Toolbox and the generated .ini files use those locations as default. For more details refer to the documentation in the section "Using the Simulink Library".
  3. The Matlab script startup_wbitoolbox has been improved and it should be enough to run it to have all the necessary directories added to the Matlab's path. Following the additional instructions given by the script the user should also be able to have the Toolbox permanently installed in Matlab.

I believe these three significant improvements should facilitate enough the installation for average users. But I guess it's too early to tell :smile:

francesco-romano commented 9 years ago

I close since we moved all related issues in https://github.com/robotology-playground/WBI-Toolbox project