[ANNOUNCE] Orocos 0.10.0

OROCOS v0.10.0  Release Notes
   http://www.orocos.org
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We announce the release of the Open RObot COntrol Software v0.10.0.

Orocos aims at building a community for designing realtime
open robot controllers using Free Software. This is a brief features
list of this release :

* Realtime RTAI 24.1.x and 3.0 LXRT support
* Non-realtime GNU/Linux support
* eCos Package management system
* Graphical configuration tool (screenshots on the download page)
* Per package online manuals
* Various control kernel implementations (single, cascading, ...)
* Various 6D Path planning algorithms with VelocityProfiles
* State-full and State-less kinematic components
* Cartesian motion control components
* Synchronous/Asynchronous Event handling library
* Realtime Script Program processing
* Extendible Orocos Script Program parsing
* Runtime XML configuration of control kernels
* Runtime XML configuration of kernel components
* Extendible Reporting of control variables
* Complete cross-linked API documentation
* Explain by example online manuals.
* CANOpen support with CANPie integration
* Comedi integration
* Hardware Device interface abstractions
* Easy to use C++ Task-based multithreading
* Example applications for control kernels

This release is tagged as stable. It has been tested on several
machines in our lab, such as a 6DOF Kuka Robot and XY positioning
machine.

This 0.10.0 release is a major step after the 0.9.0 release,
which appeared a year ago. We switched to the eCos packaging
and configuration system to allow easy application-specific tweaking
and much of the code has been refactored. Thanks to the RTAI
community, Orocos delivers userspace realtime machine control
for Linux.

To download Orocos on your system, to go http://www.orocos.org,
section Downloads.

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Peter Soetens                                      http://www.orocos.org
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Division Production Engineering,                      tel. +32 16 322773
Machine Design and Automation                         fax. +32 16 322987
Celestijnenlaan 300B                   [email protected]
B-3001 Leuven Belgium                 http://www.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/pma
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