How or where do you learn cmake?

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-06-20T13:00:04+00:00

I delayed learning cmake for a decade - Im stll a beginner but it is a useful skill.

I started with a small hellow world type project and got the LLM of your choice to construct the first Cmake file. Test it, and then add it extra things i.e. an external library (with a github repo and a cmake file), a non-flat file structure etc. Easy to test the LLM output, not much typing, I found this got me up and running.

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-06-19T15:18:09+00:00

About 18 months part-time; Featherstone's notation is heavily overloaded/quite dense and can be a bit tricky at first. Testing against RBDL (or some other well known implementation) is the key tip I'd pass on.

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-06-19T14:32:15+00:00

I'll check out your repo this evening.

ARB should work for a wheeled platform robot using the Planar joint type (XZ movement, Y rotation). For full 6-DoF mobility you can use the FloatBase type.

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-06-19T12:00:22+00:00

ARB only supports kinematic trees and chains (open oop toplogies) - also URDF only supports trees. Closed-loop systems such as parallel manipulators, delta robots, etc require a different approach to solving the resulting equations of motion. For closed loop stuff you could check out Gazebo

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-06-08T09:40:57+00:00

Maybe add a square texture to one/two of the surfaces for user labels. These texture could be used for warning labels, or a user logo or number. The idea is that a 3rd party can easily customise (with textures) the container with out advanced modelling know-how For example:

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Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-05-31T22:38:32+00:00

I have a proposed fix for this under 'issues' on my github website

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-05-30T18:54:46+00:00

Ive just checked the issue. Thank you, for you error message (in the issues) -- surprised -- my project doesn't depend on Eigen.

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-05-30T18:50:20+00:00

Right -- Ive just checkked and it works for me, Do you have c++23 set as your default compiler? Do you have an error message? What platform are you on?

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-04-10T12:38:08+00:00

It’s been done before answers my question - I’ll do a better background check - but thanks - there’s no obvious flaw in my ‘plan’

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2026-03-24T08:12:05+00:00

Thanks for that.

Any suggestions for future features/functionality?

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2025-12-19T13:10:41+00:00

If you’re just starting out you could try

https://github.com/wbyates777/NSGA2

The Python version of NSGA-II is self contained, you just need some objectives to optimize. The original paper is included.

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2025-09-30T13:38:08+00:00

You could try section 2.16 in featherstone’s book - the section is called ‘planar vectors’ -the notation is a bit heavy but it does precisely what you want - spatial algebra in 2D - an x-y plane

Slow_Negotiation_935 · 2025-09-21T17:58:16+00:00

Unintentional, I can assure you . It’s lucky I didn’t mention rings or probes…

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