Autopilot Design using JSBSim and Scicoslab

James Goppert January 14, 2011 at 10:08am

Try scicoslab -debug and let me know the output.

Mostafa Ahmad January 14, 2011 at 9:46am

I have done as you said. It starts scicoslab in a new window for 1 second and then the scicoslab shows "mode(-1)" then it terminates !!!!

May be there is an error in oooark compilation ? or What do think ?

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James Goppert January 14, 2011 at 6:44am

Ok seems like you have everything working but are just calling it wrong.

start the terminal

in the terminal:

cd "your path to oooark"/oooark

./autobuild.sh

cd scicoslab <-- chanes you into the scicoslab directory where the scilab.ini file is to load the oooark blocks

scicoslab <-- calls the scicoslab command to start scicoslab in your current directory

Now scicoslab will start up and launch the demo automatically.

Mostafa Ahmad January 13, 2011 at 2:09pm

By the way, I installed the version ScicosLab-4.4b7, exactly as you said. So I think this is not the source of error.

Mostafa Ahmad January 13, 2011 at 2:08pm

I have compiled it successfully at last. Thanks God.

When I wrote in the shell : exec scicoslab the shell exits !! Is this normal ?

In addition , I did not found the demo you suggested (VisTest.cos ) in the path File->Open->demos->VisTest.cos, but I found it in demos folder in /oooark/scicoslab/demos, also when I clicked it to run, scicoslab gave me 4 errors;

The first :

Problem loading car

undefined variable : car

Use Activate_Scilab_Window and redefine it in Scilab.

The rest of errors are the same, but instead of "car", it wrote plane, jet , quad.

I think that there is no connection between scicos and oooark, right ? How can solve this problem?

Thanks

Developer

James Goppert January 13, 2011 at 6:55am

I made it require only osg 2.0.0 or greater so it should work for you now.

cd ~/oooark

git pull

./autobuild.sh

Mostafa Ahmad January 13, 2011 at 5:53am

I have done as you said and I downloaded gcc, visualisation, math, flightgear comm . But it seems that some thing is not going well regarding the visualisation (open scene graph version 2.8.3 required, while the newest version available for ubuntu -as I know - is 2.8.1 !!!):

mostafa@ubuntu:~$ cd oooark
mostafa@ubuntu:~/oooark$ ./autobuild.sh
-- The C compiler identification is GNU
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/gcc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- The Fortran compiler identification is GNU
-- Check for working Fortran compiler: /usr/bin/f95
-- Check for working Fortran compiler: /usr/bin/f95 -- works
-- Checking whether /usr/bin/f95 supports Fortran 90
-- Checking whether /usr/bin/f95 supports Fortran 90 -- yes
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11
-- Looking for Q_WS_X11 - found
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN
-- Looking for Q_WS_WIN - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS
-- Looking for Q_WS_QWS - not found.
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC
-- Looking for Q_WS_MAC - not found.
-- Found Qt-Version 4.5.2
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindBoost.cmake:868 (message):
Unable to find the requested Boost libraries.

Unable to find the Boost header files. Please set BOOST_ROOT to the root
directory containing Boost or BOOST_INCLUDEDIR to the directory containing
Boost's headers.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:77 (find_package)

-- Found osgDB: /usr/lib/libosgDB.so
-- Found osgUtil: /usr/lib/libosgUtil.so
-- Found osgViewer: /usr/lib/libosgViewer.so
-- Found osg: /usr/lib/libosg.so
-- Found OpenThreads: /usr/lib/libOpenThreads.so
-- ERROR: Version 2.8.3 or higher of the OSG is required. Version 2.8.1 was found.
-- Looking for Fortran cblas_dgemm
-- Looking for Fortran cblas_dgemm - not found
-- Looking for Fortran sgemm
-- Looking for Fortran sgemm - found
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H
-- Looking for include files CMAKE_HAVE_PTHREAD_H - found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE
-- A library with BLAS API found.
-- Looking for Fortran cheev
-- Looking for Fortran cheev - found
-- A library with LAPACK API found.
-- Found SIMGEAR
-- Found SCICOSLAB
-- could not find package BOOSTNUMERICBINDINGS, building from source
-- could not find package JSBSIM, building from source
-- could not find package MAVLINK, building from source
-- install_name /usr/local/lib
-- =======================================
--     LIBRARY            BUILDING
-- =======================================
--     Communication        YES
--         Mavlink        YES
--         JSBSim        YES
--         Simgear        YES
--     Scicos            YES
--     Visualization        NO
--         OpenSceneGraph        NO
--         QT4        YES
--     Math            YES
--         Lapack        YES
--         Fortran        YES
-- =======================================
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
Boost_INCLUDE_DIR (ADVANCED)
   used as include directory in directory /home/mostafa/oooark/src/communication
   used as include directory in directory /home/mostafa/oooark/src/math
   used as include directory in directory /home/mostafa/oooark/app/trim

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

It seems that one step remains, the only error remaining is the open scene graph error.

Thanks for your patience

Developer

James Goppert January 12, 2011 at 7:04am

Also I gave you the wrong git url. It is "

git clone git://oooark.git.sf.net/gitroot/oooark/oooark" for public access.

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James Goppert January 12, 2011 at 7:02am

Also, make sure you have scicoslab 4.4b7 installed as there is currently an issue with scicoslab 4.4 that I have yet to fix.

Developer

James Goppert January 12, 2011 at 7:01am

It looks like you are missing gcc. So try:

rm -rf oooark ( if you still have the old directory)

git clone ssh://oooark.git.sf.net/gitroot/oooark/oooark

cd oooark

This install gcc: sudo apt-get install build-essential

If you want visualization blocks: sudo apt-get install libopenscenegraph-dev

If you want math blocks: sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev gfortran

If you want flightgear comm blocks: sudo apt-get install simgear-dev

Then I made this script to call cmake in a build directory and then call make.

./autobuild.sh

Then:

cd ./scicoslab

exec scicoslab

When scicoslab is running:

scicos

Then to run a demo:

File->Open->demos->VisTest.cos (for example)

Then click run on the diagram.

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