PANDA testing software

This program is intended to be used only for testing some functionalities of the PANDA robot from Franka Emika on Windows using also CoppeliaSim.

Build Libraries

Before building the project it is necessary to have all the external libraries.
See Build libs for instructions.

Build panda_win

cd path/to/panda_win
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIR=C:\dev\vcpkg\installed\x64-windows\include -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Note: you can use also

-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:\dev\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake

Run panda_win

Before running open the scene in Coppelia and be sure you have all the dll in the same path where the executable is located. To help this steps these are gathered here, but be sure to update them.
Run to check the available functionalities

path/to/panda_win.exe --help

Authors

E. Nicotra with huge thanks to M. Ferro!