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Traversability-based contact planner code release
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Traversability-based Contact Space Planner
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Traversability-based contact space planner code release. Given environment specified as a set of polygonal surface and a robot model, the code generate contact sequence for a humanoid robot. We provide an example with the [Escher humanoid robot](https://icat.vt.edu/projects/2015-2016/major/escher-humanoid-robot.html) model. The code is written in Python 2.7 and tested in Ubuntu 14.04 with ROS Indigo.

Setup
------------
* Install [OpenRAVE](https://github.com/rdiankov/openrave), [Installation Guide](https://scaron.info/teaching/installing-openrave-on-ubuntu-14.04.html) (Tested Commit: 7c5f5e27eec2b2ef10aa63fbc519a998c276f908)
* Install [ROS](http://wiki.ros.org/indigo/Installation/Ubuntu)
* Install `srdfdom` and `tinyxml2`: `sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-srdfdom libtinyxml2-dev`
* Install `Eigen` and `NEWMAT`: `sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev libnewmat10-dev`
* Install [cddlib](https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/fukudak/cdd_home/) (Tested Version: cddlib-094h):

Get cddlib from ftp:
```
wget ftp://ftp.math.ethz.ch/users/fukudak/cdd/cddlib-094h.tar.gz
tar -xvf cddlib-094h.tar.gz
cd cddlib-094h
```
or from github:
```
git clone https://github.com/cddlib/cddlib.git
cd cddlib
git checkout 0.94h
```
Install cddlib and dependencies:
```
sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd /usr/local/include
sudo mkdir cdd
sudo mv cdd_f.h cddmp_f.h cddtypes_f.h cdd.h cddmp.h cddtypes.h setoper.h cdd
```

* Create a catkin workspace and clone the repo under `/path/to/catkin/workspace/src`, run `catkin_make` in `/path/to/catkin/workspace` to build the code.
* Before running the code, `source /path/to/catkin/workspace/devel/setup.bash`.

Usage
-----

The contact planner is initiated with the script `humanoid_motion_planner.py` with the following options:

* `contact_sequence_generation_method`: Decide how contact sequence is generated for each guiding path segment.

`all_planning`: Use graph search planning in every segment.

`all_retrival`: Retrive and adapt previously generated motion plan in evey segment.

`hybrid`(Default): Use planning in segment with high traversability, and use retrival in segment with low traversability.

* `path_segmentation_type`: Decide how guiding path is segmented.

`no_segmentation`: The planner will use every motion mode along the guiding path.

`motion_mode_segmentation`: The planner will segment the guiding path at where motion mode changes.

`motion_mode_and_traversability_segmentation`(Default): The planner will segment the guiding path at where motion mode changes, and then further decompose each segment based on the traversability.

* `traversability_threshold_type`: The type of threshold that the planner use to determine the contact sequence generation method.

`mean`(Default): The planner uses the mean of the traversability of all torso transition in a segment to determine using planning or retrival method to generate contact sequence in the segment.

`max`: The planner uses the max of the traversability of all torso transition in a segment to determine using planning or retrival method to generate contact sequence in the segment.

* `surface_source`: The source of the environment in planning. The repo provides 3 examples each for two-corridor and two-stair environment. The user can create new environment by adding new options in `update_environment` function in `environment_handler.py`.

`two_corridor_environment`(Default): Randomly generate a two-corridor environment.

`two_stair_environment`: Randomly generate a two-stair environment.

`load_from_data`: Load environment object file stored using `pickle` from path specified by `environment_path` parameter.

* `environment_path`: The folder which contains the stored environment object file.
* `start_env_id` and `end_env_id`: The first and last environment object file id loaded in the process.

Example Usage:
```
python humanoid_motion_planner.py contact_sequence_generation_method hybrid traversability_threshold_type mean path_segmentation_type motion_mode_and_traversability_segmentation environment_path environment_two_corridor surface_source load_from_data start_env_id 0 end_env_id 0
```

Using A Different Robot Model
-----

To swap a robot model, check the the comments in `load_escher.py`, and define all corresponding variables for the new robot model to create a robot loading function. Then swap all `load_escher` functions with the newly defined robot loading function.

Training Traversability Regressor
-----

To train traversability regressor, first generate the footstep_window, which precomputes all the footstep location given a torso transition. Then collect training data for each separate regressor mode (legs_only, legs_and_one_hand, all_manipulators). Finally, train the model with the training data. In summary, run the scripts with the following steps:
1. `python transition_footstep_window_generator.py` (Generate footstep_window)
2. `python traversability_training_data_collector.py batch_id [training data batch id] mode [legs_only,legs_and_one_hand,all_manipulators] sample_env_num [number of sampling environment] surface_source [environment name]` (Collect training data for each mode.)
3. `python traversability_regressor_training.py mode [legs_only,legs_and_one_hand,all_manipulators]` (Train traversability regressor for each mode.)