I hope you are all doing well. I agree with Carlos in that we should start working on the small robot at soon as possible. Meanwhile, I installed Player/Stage according to the manuals included in the main web page.
At first I had some trouble with the instructions indicated at the project file " It is also required to redirect the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH from the “.bashrc” in each user HOME path.", but I fortunately could get some help and I think I have figured it out.
However, when installing Stage, I came to a step that said as follows: "Test to see if Stage works by running the stest program:
src/stest worlds/simple.world robot1If you see a robot running around, your build was successful." Well, I didn't see the robot so I went to a user group for debugging help indicated in the same step. A lot of the suggestions and comments there didn't seem entirely clear to me so I just decided to continue with the next step assuming I wasn't running the test program correctly.
This is why I would like to know if there is a way I can check that my installation process was concluded successfully. I would really appreciate your feedback in this aspect.
I will make an effort to visit the lab daily at every available hour I have in order to see if we can meet during this periods of time. I'll be seeing you soon.
Take care!
Hi Laura,
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting.
It is very nice to hear you are having some improvements on the Player installation. Perhaps you will need to add some more paths to the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or to another variables, depending on the drivers and tools we will be using from Player/Stage.
The best way to test a Player/Stage intallation is by executing a CFG file. So test from whichever path you installed Stage with the following command:
$player STAGE_PATH/worlds/simple.cfg
If you open this CFG file you will see how are Stage drivers defined for Player. They basically require a WORLD file and a model for each simulated instance. In this case, if you also open the "simple.world" file (the correspondent world model), you will see that the line 'model r0"', refers to a simulated instance of a pioneer2dx robot.
Please, let us know if you could see the simulated robot.
Kind regards,
Renato.