Orocos v0.12.0 released
Peter Soetens <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.science.robotics.orocos.user |
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| Organization | KU Leuven |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
OROCOS v0.12.0 Release Notes http://www.orocos.org ---------------------------- We announce the release of the Open RObot COntrol Software v0.12.0. Orocos aims at building a community for designing realtime open robot controllers using Free Software. This is a brief features list of this release : * The orocos-install.tcl scripts works more smoothly * The Thread model is extended to allow unrestricted cascading control loops, with fixed priorities. * The Control Kernel documentation has been improved * There are now 4 demonstration compile/run-ready sample kernels * Runtime machine state descriptions added to the Program Parser and Processor ( see kernel_sample/program_state/ ) * The Program Parser and Processor have had much testing and documentation * Comedi and APCI Device Drivers updated * The usual bugfixes and docu updates We *know* people are downloading the software, any feedback is welcome (did it work ?, at what point did you hook off ?, what is missing for your needs,... ?) A big thank-you for the people on the orocos-dev list, keeping up the user-base :-) To try it out, do the following : wget http://www.orocos.org/orocos-install.tcl sh orocos-install.tcl and off you go... see also the install manual on <http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~psoetens/orocos-packages/orocos-installation.html> Peter -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------