Simulate complex robots

[diegoferigo]

During the first phase of development, we mainly tested the framework with toy environments such as the CartPole and the Pendulum.

For the first stable release, we want to achieve simulating complex multi-DoF floating-base robots, whose models might contain meshes.

In #4, we included models of the iCub humanoid robot, but after the first experiments we never used them for real development. We should start again that activity and finalize their usage in simulated environments.

We can use this issue to report the problems and bottlenecks we encounter. To begin:

• Simulating iCubGazeboV2_5 (model, world) is extremely slow. I get a RTF ~ 4%. We should run a profiler (Profile Ignition Gazebo to debug slow iCubGenovaV2_5 simulation #91) to understand where is the bottleneck (Is the problem DART or Gazebo?).

Note that the model still has rendering problems, as reported in #31.

[diegoferigo]

I think that with the new ScenarI/O bindings #158 just merged into devel #185 we reached good performance and a rich set of features. Closing.