ParticleRobotSimulations

CUDA-based simulation code for

Particle robotics based on statistical mechanics of loosely coupled components
Shuguang Li, Richa Batra, David Brown, Hyun-Dong Chang, Nikhil Ranganathan, Chuck Hoberman, Daniela Rus & Hod Lipson

Installation Steps

Ubuntu

• Install build-essential package

sudo apt-get install build-essentials

• Install NVIDIA CUDA ToolKit
• Install GL/GLEW related libraries

    sudo apt-get install g++ freeglut3-dev build-essential libx11-dev \
    libxmu-dev libxi-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev libglew-dev

• Install OpenCV

sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev

• Compile the Code

make

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Windows

• Install Visual Studio (with C/C++ development module)
• Install NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
• Install OpenCV
• Install FreeGLUT
• Install GLEW
• Set the following Environment Variables (System Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables) to point to your installation locations for the above libraries

  CUDA_PATH
  OpenCV_DIR
  GLEW_DIR
  FREEGLUT_DIR
  

• Add

   %FREEGLUT_DIR%\bin\x64;%GLEW_DIR%\bin\Release\x64;
  

  to your User PATH Variable (System Properties->Advanced->Environment Variables)
• Open ParticleBot.sln with Visual Studio and Build Solution

Author

Richa Batra