FlightGoggles : Python Client

We have tested the FlightGoggles Python Client on Ubuntu 18.04 and Python 3.6.

Installing with Docker (Recommended)

git submodule update --init --recursive
docker build -t pyfg .
./run_docker.sh
python3.6 -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Once you build the docker container and generate a virtual environment, the FlightGoggles Python Client can be run with the following command:

./run_docker.sh
source venv/bin/activate

Installing with Virtualenv

Before setting the virtual environment, the following libraries have to be installed. (Skip this step if the library is already installed.)

sudo apt-get install -y \
  cmake \
  python3.6-dev \
  python3-pip \
  python3-virtualenv \
  libeigen3-dev \
  libopencv-dev \
  libzmqpp-dev \
  ffmpeg

The virtual environment can be generated using the following command:

git submodule update --init --recursive
python3.6 -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install

Once you generate a virtual environment, the FlightGoggles Python Client can be run with the following command:

source venv/bin/activate

Checking the installation

After the installation, run the demo notebook to check the installation. Run the jupyter notebook, and run notebooks/demo_uav.ipynb. (Before running the notebook, set up the docker or virtualenv, and execute FlightGoggles Renderer binary)