MC 2: MC2 Post 1251 Still Having Problems Controlling Your ROBOT

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MC2 Post 1251 Still Having Problems Controlling Your ROBOT

No Problem, there's a New Update to ROS

A New version of ROS robot operating system arrives

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For the newest version of the ROS open source robot operating system, the developers have substantially revised their software. In this release, which is code-named "Fuerte Turtle", they completely rewrote the central libraries to improve interoperability and make them usable with other robotics frameworks.

ROS Fuerte Turtle includes version 1.0 of the Gazebo simulator environment, which has a new user interface that has been migrated from WxWidgets to Qt. The developers say that this change provides improved integration under Mac OS X. The RViz visualisation tool has also been migrated to Qt. ROS Fuerte Turtle also includes version 1.5 of the Point Cloud Library (PCL), with the long-awaited object-tracking library.

Yeah, this is Pretty Serious Stuff. But then, You Don't want your Robot to get out of Hand, do you.

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