Today was a big day for releasing drivers. Our 1.0 releases today were:
We are nearly finished with our 1.0 release cycle. With today's releases, most commonly used functionality with ROS has been released as 1.0, which means that non-PR2 robots using navigation and perception capabilities have a solid base to build on top of.
We also wanted to note that ROS 1.0 is in final testing. You can preview our release candidate at:
https://code.ros.org/svn/ros/stacks/ros/tags/rc/
driver_common provides common driver capabilities that we use in our laser and camera drivers, such as dynamic reconfiguration of parameters. Our laser_drivers stack provides drivers for common Hokuyo and SICK laser rangefinders. We also released pr2_ethercat_drivers and pr2_power_drivers, which support PR2-specific hardware.
Our non-driver release of the day was pr2_common 1.0, which contains description of the PR2 Beta robot, PR2-specific messages, and other common PR2 data.
We also released several other stacks today, including the new web_interface and pr2_web_apps stacks, which provide a user-friendly, browser-based environment for performing common robot tasks and monitoring.
- pr2_robot 0.2.0
- pr2_apps 0.2.0
- pr2_web_apps 0.3.0
- web_interface 0.3.0
Change lists:
- driver_common
- laser_drivers
- pr2_common
- pr2_ethercat_drivers
- pr2_power_drivers
- pr2_robot
- pr2_apps
- pr2_web_apps
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-- your friendly neighborhood PR2 drivers
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