The wpimath library is a new library designed to separate the reusable math functionality
from the common utility library (wpiutil) and the hardware-dependent library (wpilibc/j).
Package names / include file names were NOT changed to minimize breakage. In a future year
it would be good to revamp these for a more uniform user experience and to reduce the risk
of accidental naming conflicts.
While theoretically all of this functionality could be placed into wpiutil, several pieces
of this library (e.g. DARE) are very time-consuming to compile, so it's nice to avoid this
expense for users who only want cscore or ntcore. It also allows for easy future separation
of build tasks vs number of workers on memory-constrained machines.
This moves the following functionality from wpiutil into wpimath:
- Eigen
- ejml
- Drake
- DARE
- wpiutil.math package (Matrix etc)
- units
And the following functionality from wpilibc/j into wpimath:
- Geometry
- Kinematics
- Spline
- Trajectory
- LinearFilter
- MedianFilter
- Feed-forward controllers
Drake is a collection of tools for analyzing robot dynamics and building control systems.
See https://drake.mit.edu/ for details.
Co-authored-by: Tyler Veness <calcmogul@gmail.com>
This adds a wrapper over EJML's SimpleMatrix that uses generated classes representing numbers to encode the dimensions of each matrix at compile time, and to check operations between matrices for validity at compile time, rather than failing with an exception at runtime. This is required for the Java implementation of state-space control.
Additions to the wpiutil gradle script, and a python script at the wpiutil root are used to generate numeric types from a template at build time for both gradle and cmake. Users will be able to access types through functions on the Nat class.
