dairlib

Warning! This is very much "development-level" code and is provided as-is. APIs are likely to be unstable and, while we hope for the documentation to be thorough and accurate, we make no guarantees.

Current Continuous Integration Status

• master branch build and unit tests (Ubuntu 18.04):
• master branch build and unit tests (Ubuntu 20.04):
• master branch build and unit tests (Ubuntu 18.04 with ROS):
• Experimental build against Drake's master branch:

Complete Build Instructions

Download dairlib

1. Clone dairlib into the your workspace, e.g. "my-workspace/dairlib".

git clone https://github.com/DAIRLab/dairlib.git

2. Download and setup SNOPT

dairlib, by default, assumes that users have access to SNOPT(https://web.stanford.edu/group/SOL/snopt.htm), though it is not required. If you do not have SNOPT, you will need to edit .bazelrc and change build --define=WITH_SNOPT=ON to build --define=WITH_SNOPT=OFF

For users at Penn, download SNOPT (https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~posa/snopt/snopt7.6.tar.gz) and add the following line to your ~/.bashrc

export SNOPT_PATH=<the directory you downloaded to>/snopt7.6.tar.gz

There is no need to extract the tar.

Build Drake

The library is meant to be built with Drake (see http://drake.mit.edu/ for more details). There are two ways to use Drake within dairlib:

Option 1: use pegged revision

The only specific action needed here is to install all of Drake's prerequisites. There are two choices

1. (Experimental) In dairlib/install, run the appropriate install_prereqs_xxx.sh. This is untested on mac, and has not been tested to get every dependency for a fresh install.
2. Download a source copy of drake, and install pre-requisites as described here: http://drake.mit.edu/from_source.html

bazel will automatically download the pegged revision, specified in the WORKSPACE file. dairlib developers hope to keep this pegged revision current, and ensure that the pegged version will always work with a specific version of dairlib.

This option is recommended for users who are not currently editing any source code in Drake itself.

Option 2: source install of Drake

Install Drake from source into "my-workspace"/drake http://drake.mit.edu/from_source.html. You do not need to build it, but prerequisites should also be installed. You will need git to start.

To tell dairlib to use your local install, set the environment variable DAIRLIB_LOCAL_DRAKE_PATH, e.g.

export DAIRLIB_LOCAL_DRAKE_PATH=/home/user/my-workspace/drake

Other dependencies

These dependencies are necessary for some advanced visualization and process management. Many examples will work without a full installation of Director or libbot, but (for lab members), these are ultimately recommended.

LCM and libbot

Install a local copy of lcm and libbot2 using sudo apt install lcm libbot2. The prerequisites installation from Drake should add the proper repo for these. (This likely require's Drake's prerequisites to be installed from a source copy).

ROS

To integrate with ROS (tested on ROS Melodic), the following steps are required.

1. Install ROS http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Installation
2. Do not forget to setup your environment. For instance, add these lines to ~/.bashrc

export ROS_MASTER_URI=http://localhost:11311
source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash 

3. Install additional dependencies

sudo apt install python-rosinstall-generator python-catkin-tools

4. Build the ROS workspace using catkin. From dairlib/,

cd tools/workspace/ros
./compile_ros_workspace.sh

5. Set the environment variable DAIRLIB_WITH_ROS to ON. For instance, add to ~/.bashrc

export DAIRLIB_WITH_ROS=ON

Invariant-EKF

State Estimation for Cassie is done using contact-aided invariant-EKF. invariant-ekf is an external repository forked from Ross Hartley's repository of the same name. By default, a pegged version of this forked repository is used i.e. the bazel branch of DAIR lab's fork of invariant-ekf is automatically downloaded and used. However, to make changes to the files, the DAIR Lab's fork of invariant-ekf can be cloned as a local repository.

To use local version of invariant-ekf, set the environment variable DAIRLIB_LOCAL_INEKF_PATH, e.g.

export DAIRLIB_LOCAL_INEKF_PATH=/home/user/my-workspace/invariant-ekf

Notes for macOS

1. Be sure to have Xcode 9.0 or later installed with Command Line Tools. If you receive a clang: error: cannot specify -o when generating multiple output files message during the build process, re-run install_prereqs.sh, and be sure that it runs fully before termination, as this will reconfigure Xcode to work with Drake.

Notes for for Ubuntu Focal (20.04)

1. We do not yet support lcm signal scope for Ubuntu 20.04. Before building dairlib, remove data = ["@signal_scope"] from signalscope/BUILD.bazel. You may build signal scope from source via DAIRLab's fork if you wish, though it is not necessary for the funcionality of the rest of the library.

Build dairlib

Build what you want via Bazel. From dairlib, bazel build ... will build the entire project. Drake will be built as an external dependency.

• If you run into ram/cpu limits while building, you can cap the number of threads bazel will use (here we choose 8) by either:
  • adding build --jobs=8 to .bazelrc
  • using the jobs flag when calling build (e.g. bazel build [target] --jobs=8)

Included Modules

A list of included modules

DIRCON

A modern Drake implementation of the DIRCON constrained trajectory optimization algorithm. Currently under construction. See /examples/PlanarWalker/run_gait_dircon.cc for a simple example of the hybrid DIRCON algorithm. The more complete example set (from the paper) currently exists on an older version of Drake https://github.com/mposa/drake/tree/hybrid-merge

Based off the publication

Michael Posa, Scott Kuindersma, Russ Tedrake. "Optimization and Stabilization of Trajectories for Constrained Dynamical Systems." Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016.

Available online at https://posa.seas.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/Posa16a.pdf

Docker (experimental)

Docker support is currently experimental. See install/bionic/Dockerfile for an Ubuntu Dockerfile. Docker is being used in conjuction with Cirrus Continuous Integration, and should be better supported in the future.