http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17938 <pre>We have pushed a patch release of perception_pcl into Fuerte. Also showing si ros-fuerte-all due to delisting non building packages. Tully Packages Added: ros-fuerte-all : 1.0.0 Packages Removed: Packages Updated: ros-fuerte-perception-pcl : 1.2.4 -&gt; 1.2.5 </pre> Tully Foote 2013-06-19T02:18:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17937 <pre>Hello to anyone using ROS on a Scitos robot from MetraLabs [0], you hopefully know the metralabs_ros package [1] from Chris Burbridge' original repository uuisrc-ros-pkg [2] or my fork. We will rework the package on the inside and outside, aiming for robot instance flexibility and compatibility, round feature set, ROS standards, catkin compatibility and eventually an announced release. Therefore the package has been extracted to a separate repository [3], deprecating the old location. If you are using our package or just ROS on a Scitos in another way we'd like to hear from you! If you have any issues or feature requests please file them in the new repo [3]. 0: http://www.metralabs.com/ 1: http://ros.org/wiki/metralabs_ros 2: https://github.com/cburbridge/uuisrc-ros-pkg 3: https://github.com/cburbridge/scitos Happy coding Felix </pre> Felix Kolbe 2013-06-18T18:09:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17929 <pre>Announcing the release of Iwaki interaction and dialogue manager library and its ROS wrapper: https://github.com/maxipesfix/iwaki-ros-pkg Iwaki interaction manager is currently used to manage both conversational (verbal and non-verbal) and task-related interactions for two social robots at Carnegie Mellon University. The task-related interactions include: - information retrieval requests for a new version of Hala, the bilingual robot receptionist at CMU Qatar, - table-game playing interactions for an upcoming robot at CMU. Iwaki includes a production system, inspired by COLLAGEN's plan tree [Rich and Sidner, 1998], that interprets rules (recipes) stored in XML. The production system approach allows creating interactions with aspects of finite-state, frame/script, and information-state-based dialogue management. The distribution includes examples and a manual (under development). Cheers, Maxim Makatchev </pre> Maxim Makatchev 2013-06-17T21:50:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17928 <pre>Hi Everyone, Thanks to all the maintainers for their releases into the Hydro Alpha. We have almost 90 packages updated in this release including 20 new packages. For a detailed listing see below. You ROS Release Team Packages Added: ros-hydro-concert-conductor : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-concert-msgs : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-concert-orchestra : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-gateway-msgs : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-redis : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-app-manager : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-app-manager-msgs : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-app-platform : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-apps : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-concert : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-gateway : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-gateway-graph : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-gateway-tests : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-hub : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-hub-client : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-msgs : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-multimaster : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-rqt-plugins : 0.5.1 ros-hydro-rocon-test : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-tf-reconstructor : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-unreliable-experiments : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-rocon-utilities : 0.5.2 ros-hydro-zeroconf-avahi : </pre> Tully Foote 2013-06-14T17:19:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17922 <pre>Hi Everyone, I have a quick update on answers.ros.org. We found out that the batched emails have not been being serviced. Daily and weekly, were not being processed. They have been turned on now. Also in this fix, we have turned on reminders to accept answers to your questions. Please do make an effort to accept questions so that others know that they have solutions. This is better for our community in that they both do not spend time trying to help someone with a solution already, and for other people with the same problem they know that this thread has been solved before they read it through. answers.ros.org has become a great resource for the community. Thank you all for participating. We've passed 11 thousand questions asked and have 73% with accepted answers. Tully </pre> Tully Foote 2013-06-13T17:58:50 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17919 <pre>Hi all, when installing debian msg-packages under groovy, e.g. arm_navigation_msgs or pr2_msgs, they only contain the generated cpp-files, while the lisp-msgs are missing. Example: Under fuerte: /opt/ros/fuerte/stacks/pr2_common/pr2_msgs/msg_gen contains both cpp and lisp directories. Under groovy: /opt/ros/groovy/stacks/pr2_common/pr2_msgs/msg_gen contains only a cpp directory. This leads to compilation error of lisp packages that depend on these message packages under groovy. I think this is a bug. Could anybody please confirm this bug? Also, if it is indeed a bug, could someone please point me to the right place to file a ticket? Thanks a lot. Cheers, Georg. </pre> Georg Bartels 2013-06-13T09:39:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17918 <pre>Hi everyone, some time ago, I made a german translation of the ROS wiki. The issue of seeing translated pages directly was disussed here: https://github.com/ros-infrastructure/roswiki/issues/31. I tested the use of LanguageDict pages but without success. To make the translations available and visible to others - especially newcomers - I made links to the translated main wiki pages. I hope you can agree with this change. Nevertheless I would prefer if someone with knowledge of moinmoin could have a look at it to make the translations visible on the specific pages directly. Kind regards Fabian Saccilotto </pre> Fabian Saccilotto 2013-06-12T07:29:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17915 <pre>Hi Everyone, To facilitate the release timeline discussion please take a moment to fill out this survey about your ROS usage past and expected so we can make an informed decision going forward. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JY63R3Z We will keep this survey open through the end of the week. Tully </pre> Tully Foote 2013-06-12T03:25:46 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17914 <pre>Dear All, After receiving great feedback at ROSCON and ICRA, we are considering making an Early Release version of the Velo Gripper ( http://www.willowgarage.com/velo2g) available sometime in the Fall. We are aiming for a self-contained, fully functional unit complete with ROS software for control and grasp planning. If you are potentially interested and would like to get an early announcement when and if this limited edition Velo is available, you can get more details and add your email address at the link below. By also completing the rest of the survey (which is optional) you could help us hit the right specs for the Velo, and increase the chances that it will match your needs / application. https://docs.google.com/a/willowgarage.com/forms/d/1P6KJZPGViJusjeKuOlUBoUIJP8QVbLai-Cd36rv-dAM/viewform Best, The Willow Garage Gripper Design Team </pre> Matei Ciocarlie 2013-06-11T16:48:54 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17913 <pre> http://www.compass-commercial.com/components/com_jupdateman/google.php?pltz795ldymqkt.html jinqiangcui Cui Jinqiang .......... Freeman's Commentary: Socialism is based on the assumption that you can break even. </pre> Cui Jinqiang 2013-06-11T16:26:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17912 <pre>Greetings! I just released v0.3 of matlab_rosbag, a small library for reading ROS bags in matlab. There are more features and things are much faster than they were. I never publicly advertised v0.2, so I've included the full changelog below. Cheers, Ben The repo: https://github.com/bcharrow/matlab_rosbag The compiled library from sourceforge (Linux + Mac): https://sourceforge.net/projects/matlabrosbag/files The (REP 132 compliant?) changelog entries: 0.3.0 (2013-06-09) ------------------ * Add equivalents of 'rosbag info', 'rosmsg show', and 'rosmsg show --raw' to ros.Bag * Rename ros.Bag functions readMessage() to read() and readAllMessages() to readAll() * By default, return simple messages as matrices instead of structs * Improve overall performance; depending on the message type, reading messages is 2x-20x faster than v0.2 * Update build to use Groovy; much easier to compile everything 0.2.0 (2012-02-11) ------------------ * Improve performance for fixed size messages * Various bugfixes (constan</pre> Benjamin Charrow 2013-06-11T04:59:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17905 <pre>Hey all, I've never done this before... New to the whole open source community. I sent links to the new repositories, and I was just wondering what I need to do next... The P2OS driver is meant to replace the broken-since-fuerte package that currently exists. My question: how do I go about announcing this, and how do I modify the wiki so that it knows my package exists? Here is the link, again: https://github.com/allenh1/p2os Any and all advice is welcome! I have been using ROS for a while now, and I'm excited to contribute to such an amazing piece of open-source software. I'd also like to help with the REP's, but don't know how to get started. thanks, -Hunter Allen Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Vanderbilt University Human-Machine Teaming Lab </pre> Hunter Allen 2013-06-07T17:19:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17903 <pre>Sorry guys, new here... Link to p2os: https://github.com/allenh1/p2os Link to vanderbilt-ros-pkg https://github.com/allenh1/vanderbilt-ros-pkg Enjoy! I just finished modifying the p2os_urdf to cooperate with Groovy. -Hunter A. </pre> Hunter Allen 2013-06-06T21:00:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17901 <pre>I am proud to announce the p2os package! I have modified it to work with ROS groovy. -Hunter Allen </pre> Hunter Allen 2013-06-06T16:25:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17899 <pre>Hello ROS users! I am proud to announce the official Vanderbilt University ROS repository, vanderbilt-ros-pkg. This will be maintained for ROS Groovy and future releases, and includes an adapted p2os driver that is groovy compatible. This is the code that runs on our three pioneer robots here at Vanderbilt University. -Hunter Allen </pre> Hunter Allen 2013-06-06T15:53:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17885 <pre>Hi, We're looking for 2 talented Software Developers at the Shadow Robot company! Here is the full job description which is also available on our website: http://www.shadowrobot.com/about/vacancies-and-internships/ (sorry for the cross-posting on robotics-worldwide) If you're interested, please get in touch! Ugo Job description The role of software engineers at Shadow is to advance robotic systems, by implementing new solutions and algorithms, in order to realize complex tasks with complex robots. Should you join our team your job would centre on developing host side software for our robot systems. Your list of tasks could for example, include implementing drivers for new tactile finger tip sensors, adding auto diagnostics to the robot and developing simulated and real life robotic systems. You’ll be involved in different research projects developing robotic technologies in many fields such as in hand manipulation, 3D sensing and robotics for use in hazardous environments, as well as developing our</pre> Ugo Cupcic 2013-06-05T13:58:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17881 <pre>Hey guys, we just realized a problematic issue when generating action message using the catkin message generation mechanism. When catkin_make'ing a package that includes actions, the corresponding messages (`.msg`-files) containing the Request, Result, and Feedback structures are referenced multiple times in the resulting `.asd`-Lisp file for that package. This practically breaks loading the message definitions into roslisp, making the message types unusable this way. The issue arises once you define more than one action in a package. If only one action is defined, it does not come up. When defining more than one `.action`-file (say, n files) and putting them into your CMakeLists.txt file, the block in the `.asd`-file for that action gets written n times. Just for clarification, if a message is defined more than once in the `.asd`-file by the same name (which is the case here), it is unloadable by ASDF (and therefore, roslisp!). The issue does not arise when configuring the package as a rosb</pre> Jan Winkler 2013-06-05T10:43:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17872 <pre>Hi Everyone, We have a large list of packages released today for Hydro, Groovy, and Fuerte. This includes 139 updated or new packages. Please see below for the full listing. You ROS Release Team == Hydro (Alpha) == Packages Added: ros-hydro-gscam : 0.1.1 ros-hydro-moveit-core : 0.4.4 ros-hydro-moveit-msgs : 0.4.0 ros-hydro-object-recognition-ros : 0.2.2 ros-hydro-reflexxes-type2 : 1.2.4 ros-hydro-rosjava-tools : 0.1.3 ros-hydro-wifi-ddwrt : 0.2.0 Packages Removed: Packages Updated: ros-hydro-camera-calibration : 1.10.9 -&gt; 1.10.10 ros-hydro-depth-image-proc : 1.10.9 -&gt; 1.10.10 ros-hydro-ecto-opencv : 0.4.24 -&gt; 0.4.25 ros-hydro-ecto-openni : 0.3.8 -&gt; 0.3.9 ros-hydro-image-pipeline : 1.10.9 -&gt; 1.10.10 ros-hydro-image-proc : 1.10.9 -&gt; 1.10.10 ros-hydro-image-rotate : 1.10.9 -&gt; 1.10.10 ros-hydro-image-view : 1.10.9 -&gt; 1.10.10 ros-hydro-interactive-markers : 1.9.6 -&gt; 1.9.7 ros-hydro-laser-filters : 1.6.6 -&gt; 1.6.8 ros-hydro-object-recognition-capture : 0.2.21 -&gt; 0.2.22 ros-hydro-object-recognition-reconstru</pre> Tully Foote 2013-06-05T00:24:05 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17871 <pre>A long time back there was an API review for cartesian trajectory messages [1] but it'd be nice to standardize a ROS interface for cartesian manipulator goals and trajectories. Is anyone interested in resuming this, maybe as an REP and ratifying it (or whatever we want to call the creation of message standards)? [1] http://www.ros.org/wiki/robot_mechanism_controllers/Reviews/Cartesian%20Trajectory%20Proposal%20API%20Review </pre> Jonathan Bohren 2013-06-04T23:45:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17870 <pre>Dear ROS community, """ WHAT DO WE WANT ? ROBOTS ! WHEN DO WE WANT THEM ? NAO ! """ (copyright Mac Mason) I'd like to announce the Aldebaran Robotics SIG: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ros-sig-aldebaran The main focuses I see for now would be: - your experience with ROS and NAO - an official URDF for NAO and Romeo - brainstorm about further ROS integration (e.g. a ROS publisher NAOqi module that we could release with the next public version) Regards, Vincent Rabaud (from Aldebaran Robotics) </pre> Vincent Rabaud 2013-06-04T09:08:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.robotics.ros.user/17846 <pre>* Hi Everyone, As a follow up to the survey we circulated last month I'd like to start a discussion of what the best timeline for ROS releases would be. As a reminder of the survey results see: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzNmzxy4pVGMZHd2b1BSWVlHVHM/edit We've had many discussions here at OSRF about these results and have come up with a few candidates which seem reasonable. I'll outline the logic behind how we got to them and would like to hear what you think. Starting out based on the survey. We had a majority of respondants prefering a 12 month release cycle and a plurality of respondants preferring a 24 month support period. These two number nicely allign with our current practice of having two supported ROS distributions at a time with one ROS distribution in development, however just with a longer release cycle. This amount of parallel development is about all that we think we can support as a community. So based on this I think there's a relatively clear mandate to change the ROS release </pre> Tully Foote 2013-05-30T23:46:18 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.science.robotics.ros.user