-------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Dave Coleman <davetcoleman@xxxxxxxxx> > Reply-to: User discussions <ros-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: ros-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ros-users] Fwd: Announcing gazebo_ros_pkgs > Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 01:30:00 -0700 > > Greetings, > > > > I'd like to announce some significant improvements in the integration > of the Gazebo simulator with ROS in next week's rollout of Hydro. > These improvements will require a few updates to existing > robot-specific ROS packages that use Gazebo, but should overall be > painless. Most importantly, we now have good documentation. > > > The old simulator_gazebo has been replaced in Hydro with a new meta > package named gazebo_ros_pkgs. The most significant difference is that > ROS no longer builds its own version of Gazebo (e.g. > ros-groovy-gazebo). Instead, ROS Hydro uses the default stand-alone > version of Gazebo as an upstream dependency (debian). The removal of a > ROS dependency held by Gazebo (urdfdom) has facilitated this change. > > > The primary changes: > * System dependency on Gazebo > * Treats URDF and SDF as equally as possible > * Adds out of the box support for controllers using ros_control > and transmissions - see diagram > * Improvements from the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge > * Code cleanup and reduced code duplication with Gazebo > * Four new plugins: ros_video, ros_prosilica, > ros_skid_steer_drive, ros_planar_move (thanks Piyush > Khandelwal, Zdenek Materna) > * catkin-ized > I've created a nice diagram and migration guide for the changes > involved. > > > I encourage anyone who has recently been disenfranchised with > Gazebo-ROS integration to give it another try! > > > > > Thanks, > > Dave Coleman > Open Source Robotics Foundation | 251.463.2345 | davetcoleman.com > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users -- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur Sinha 11484312
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