diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9b747c16be6cb229123e43fe86b1673445d666b5..162613de47cdc1d1727755e16d907262351a4452 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -# RobustEquilibriumLib -Utility classes to check the (robust) equilibrium of a system in contact with the environment. -The main class that collects all the equilibrium-related algorithms is ```StaticEquilibrium```. +# CentroidalDynamicsLib +Utility classes to check the (robust) equilibrium of a system in contact with the environment. Comes with python bindings. +The main class that collects all the equilibrium-related algorithms is ```Equilibrium```. All the algorithms take as input: * A list of contact points * A list of contact normals @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ All the algorithms take as input: * The number of generators used for the linear approximations of the friction cones * The mass of the system -Once these input parameters have been specified, the user has access to four algorithms implemented in the following four methods of the class ```StaticEquilibrium```: +Once these input parameters have been specified, the user has access to four algorithms implemented in the following four methods of the class ```Equilibrium```: * ```computeEquilibriumRobustness```: compute the robustness of the equilibrium of a given a CoM (center of mass) position (negative values mean the system can not be in equilibrium). * ```checkRobustEquilibrium```: checks whether the system can be in equilibrium in a specified CoM position and with a specified robustness level. * ```findExtremumOverLine```: Find the extremum com position that is in robust equilibrium along the specified line. @@ -26,7 +26,11 @@ The test ```test_LP_solvers``` tries to solve some LP problems using qpOases and * [cdd lib](https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/fukudak/cdd_home/) * [qpOases (version >= 3.0beta)](https://projects.coin-or.org/qpOASES) -## Installation Steps for Ubuntu 12.04 +## Additional dependencies for python bindings +* [Boost.Python](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_63_0/libs/python/doc/html/index.html) +* [eigenpy](https://github.com/stack-of-tasks/eigenpy) + +## Installation Steps for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04 You can install cdd lib with the following command: ``` sudo apt-get install libcdd-dev @@ -59,8 +63,27 @@ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${DEVEL_DIR}/install .. make install ``` -### Optional +### Optional: CLP installation As an alternative to qpOases you can use [CLP](https://projects.coin-or.org/Clp) to solve linear programs. However, we found qpOases to be faster (especially when solving a series of problems that are similar to each other, because it can exploit warm start) and more reliable, so we suggest you to stick with qpOases. In particular, we found that CLP sometimes fails to find the real optimum when using the DLP formulation. + +### Optional: Python bindings installation +To install the Python bindings, in the CMakeLists.txt file, first enable the BUILD_PYTHON_INTERFACE option: +``` +OPTION (BUILD_PYTHON_INTERFACE "Build the python binding" ON) +``` + +Then rebuild the library: +``` +cd $ROBUST_EQUI_LIB_DIR/build +cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${DEVEL_DIR}/install .. +make install +``` +The python bindings should then be accessible through the package centroidal_dynamics. +To see example of use, you can refer to the [test file](https://github.com/stonneau/centroidal-dynamics-lib/blob/master/python/test/binding_tests.py) +which is rather self explanatory: + +In spite of an exhaustive documentation, please refer to the C++ documentation, which mostly applies +to python.