[Fedora Robotics] [Fwd: [ros-users] Fwd: Announcing gazebo_ros_pkgs]

[Ankur Sinha]

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> From: Dave Coleman <davetcoleman at gmail.com>
> Reply-to: User discussions <ros-users at code.ros.org>
> To: ros-users at code.ros.org
> 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 
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Thanks,
Warm regards,
Ankur Sinha
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