Read Me
This is a summary of the instructions found at
<https://sourceforge.net/p/cocotools/wiki/installation/>.
Installing and using COCO
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1. Download the latest version from <https://sourceforge.net/projects/cocotools/files/latest/download>.
2. Move the package file to a location of your choice and uncompress the zip-file. This will create a sub-directory with name coco that contains all files and will be referred to as PATH_TO_COCO in the remainder of these instructions.
3. Change to the Matlab startup directory for your system (any folder returned by the Matlab-function 'userpath'). Create or open the file startup.m and add the line
run PATH_TO_COCO/startup
where PATH_TO_COCO is the full path of the directory coco created in step 1.
4. Copy or move the file PATH_TO_COCO/coco_project_opts.m to the Matlab startup directory (the directory where the startup.m file created or modified in step 2 is located).
Note: Do not add PATH_TO_COCO to the Matlab path!
5. After restarting Matlab, all coco toolboxes should now be in the search path.
Documentation
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In the current version, tutorials are available for the following toolboxes and examples:
ep : continuation of equilibrium points--examples in ep/examples/, tutorial documentation in help/EP-Tutorial.pdf
coll : continuation of constrained collections of trajectory segments--examples in coll/examples/, tutorial documentation in help/COLL-Tutorial.pdf
po : continuation of periodic orbits in smooth and hybrid dynamical systems--examples in po/examples, tutorial documentation in help/PO-Tutorial.pdf
core : core utilities--short reference in help/COCO_ShortRef.pdf
recipes : collection of examples from the book Recipes for Continuation, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2013. Use the Matlab-command 'doc recipes' to browse its contents.