New brown-ros-pkg release: boxturtle-compatibility, gscam, ARToolKit support, and more

Brown is pleased to announce the first of a series of summer software releases, beginning with a new BoxTurtle-compatible release of the Brown ROS Pkg.

As usual, the full details are available at:

http://code.google.com/p/brown-ros-pkg/

Highlights include:

• the aforementioned BoxTurtle compatibility
• probe has become gscam, and is now compatible with the ROS camera interface, this means any camera or image source available to gstreamer can now be a calibrated part of an image_proc pipeline
• a new node, ar_recog, exposing most of the functionality of ARToolKit through ROS messages
• pr2_keyboard_teleoperator, providing full teleoperation of the PR2 from the keyboard
• position_tracker, a simple odometry correction service

Please check it out and help us make improvements, and be on the look-out for more releases in the coming weeks, including: an ARTag odometry system, an improved NAO v1.6 compatible version of our NAO drivers, and more.

_Trevor