[ANNOUNCE] Orocos Real-Time Toolkit 1.0

The past year has been a milestone for Orocos. Never in the history of Orocos 
was so much time and effort invested in inventing an easy to use tool for 
building control applications. Every one who had a part in this process can 
be genuinely proud. Gentlemen, start your controllers !

	Peter


               The Orocos Real-Time Toolkit v1.0.0.
                       http://www.orocos.org
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 The Orocos development team is proud to announce the first stable
 release of the Real-Time Toolkit (RTT), a C++ toolkit for building
 component based, real-time robotics and machine control applications.

 A new community website has been created in order to provide Orocos
 users a forum for collaboration and easier access to information.

 The website features also the releases of:

    * the 'Kinematics and Dynamics Library' (KDL) for calculating
    kinematic chains in real-time applications;

    * the 'Orocos Components Library' (OCL) which offers components
    for hardware access (such as vision or force sensors), motion
    control and component management;

    * the 'Bayesian Filtering Library' (BFL) which provides an
    application independent framework for inference in Dynamic
    Bayesian Networks.

 The Real-Time Toolkit 1.0 allows rapid software component development
 and prototyping for control applications. Each component comes with
 built-in XML configuration, a real-time scripting interface, data
 ports for thread-safe data exchange and a user definable command
 interface.

 The powerful Orocos 'TaskBrowser' component helps developers
 to run and debug their components, stand-alone or in a network and
 helps eliminating recompilation steps during development.

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