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Overview of PACPUS
PACPUS is a research platform of the Heudiasyc JRU UTC/CNRS 7253 in the field of Intelligent Vehicles. You can find more details about the equipments and research results directly on the website of PACPUS platform: pacpus.hds.utc.fr
To carry out experiments with Intelligent Vehicles or robots, Heudiasyc has developed the PACPUS framework to solve the systems integration issues. The framework is designed around the KISS principle and use Component-based software engineering. Developments are done mainly in C++.
PACPUS framework is distributed under CECILL-C license (equivalent to LGPL) so you can use it to build free and commercial software. You can find also some PACPUS plugins developed by the laboratory that you can use freely.
PACPUS framework
Useful links
- Tutorials
- FAQ -- common compilation errors
- FAQ -- common run-time errors
- FAQ -- common tips
- Useful tools
Prerequisites
Tools
- Modern C++ compiler (gcc >= 4.5, clang >= 3.2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or newer, etc.)
- CMake 2.8.10 or newer
- Doxygen (optionally)
- Subversion (SVN) control version system
Libraries
- Boost 1.54 or newer:
- Go to this download link and select the Boost version corresponding to your compiler
- Or you can get directly the version that supports all Visual Studio versions: Boost-msvc-all)
- Qt 4.8 or newer (download)
Compilation and Installation
Follow these instructions to compile and install the pacpus framework :
Installation
The PACPUS framework is available on several OS: Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
- Installation guide of PACPUS on Windows : TO COME
- Installation guide of PACPUS on Linux Ubuntu : TO COME
- Installation guide of PACPUS on Mac OS X : TO COME
- Installation guide of PACPUS on Linux embedded : TO COME
Once you have successfully compiled Pacpus Framework, you can install it using:
make install
or, if you use a GUI-based development environment, you have to build the INSTALL target/project.
Getting started
The tutorials are under development, they will be published soon.
PacpusTutorials/ManagingDbtFiles
Documentation
PACPUS API
Active tickets
Free available PACPUS plugins
Heudiasyc provides also some plugins that can help you to build your own application. For example, there are some interfaces to sensors used in the lab, or some tools as viewers, compute algorithms...
PACPUS sensors
This is the list of sensors now supported:
Video
Provides camera support on Firewire (1394), USB?.
Requirements
- [Windows] 1394camera CMU library. For more info, see here.
PACPUS viewers
NB: If you need more informations about the TRAC system used to manage this collaborative site, you can read this page or have a look at the official TRAC project
