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[Question]: Steps to support latest CoppeliaSim version #356

Open wpumacay opened 1 year ago

wpumacay commented 1 year ago

Hi there, thanks for the great library :smiley: . I was wondering what would be the steps required for adding support for the latest version of CoppeliaSim for PyRep. There's better URDF support and some other improvements that might be great to have when using PyRep.

I took a look at how CFFI is used to expose bindings for the C API, and I'd be great if you could clarify or provide some extra information:

Maybe I could give it a try if the steps are not quite difficult.

basab-gupta commented 1 year ago

I would be happy to help with this issue @stepjam and @wpumacay as well! The latest version of Coppeliasim has a better remote API i.e. the ZeroMQ and also supports Mujoco which would be great to incorporate into PyRep.

Coppelia commented 1 year ago

Just for info, next CoppeliaSim release will have much better support for Python. Via ZMQ remote API, but also embedded Python scripts, and a possibility to run CoppeliaSim with Python handling the main thread (basically what PyRep does now from what I understand). Should be out within 4-6 weeks

stepjam commented 1 year ago

Happy to support transferring PyRep over to use ZMQ as the backend once the new CoppleiaSim version comes out. I don't have much time these days to write, but I can certainly advise and point people in the right direction :)

stepjam commented 1 year ago

Just a note that the biggest hurdle last time I looked at upgrading pyrep ~2 years ago, was the new IK system within CoppeliaSim, which required non-trivial changes to make PyRep compatible.

Coppelia commented 1 year ago

@stepjam, I'd be happy to assist where I can

lgzid commented 1 year ago

I've recently been using reinforcement learning to train a mobile robotic arm, and PyRep has been a great help to me. I'm looking forward to the new version of PyRep. Thank you for your contributions.

lgzid commented 1 year ago

@Coppelia Hello！ Do you have any relevant examples to learn ZQM combined with Python API simulation

Coppelia commented 1 year ago

@lgzid hi, not sure what you are referring to with your question.. ;) Please wait 1-3 days, and we will have CoppeliaSim V4.6 released. It has a much better Python support/connectivity/reactivity with:

lgzid commented 1 year ago

@Coppelia Thank you for your reply！ Looking forward to the new version very much

stepjam commented 1 year ago

Hi all. I have an update on this. Thanks to the incredible work that @Coppelia and others have done in V4.6, it is now much easier for me to upgrade PyRep, and because of that, RLBench. This is great timing, as usage of PyRep and RLBench only seems to be growing. No promises, but I'll try and aim to have these updated done by end of year.

Coppelia commented 1 year ago

@stepjam, wanted to contact you as soon as last few major bugs in V4.6 were fixed, which seems to be the case now. I'd be happy to help out, especially porting existing scenes (e.g. object names for handle retrieval are deprecated in favor of path/alias or IK, collections, etc. should now exclusively be set-up programmatically, not via the GUI)

Jrobo commented 10 months ago

After running simple example program RL bench, copelliasim is opening with scene, but after 1-2 second it closed with the following error: QObject::~QObject: Timers cannot be stopped from another thread QMutex: destroying locked mutex any way to solve it?

wpumacay commented 10 months ago

Hi @Jrobo. Uhmmmm, that message appears usually after CoppeliaSim is terminated via pyrep shutdown. Are you using the version of Coppeliasim supported by PyRep? (v4.1), or are you using another version?

Jrobo commented 10 months ago

I am using version 4.1.

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wpumacay commented 10 months ago

@Jrobo , could you create a separate issue?. In the meantime, are you able to run the example_youbot_navigation.py example? That at least should show something

stepjam commented 10 months ago

Just an FYI that I started the work on the upgrade to 4.6 on the weekend. I expect to have a beta version (which does not include IK) by end of next weekend. Cheers