[ ANNOUNCE ] Orocos 0.18.1

We announce the release of Orocos ( http://www.orocos.org ) 0.18.1,
a Free Software framework for (realtime) robot, process and machine control.

This major feature release introduces a 'task infrastructure' which allows 
application writers to design and implement realtime, multi-threaded units of 
functionality. A task's interface has attributes, methods, commands and 
events which can be exported to a high-level real-time scripting language.
Tasks within applications are online browsable and
can be manipulated interactively using the 'TaskBrowser'.
A real-time scripting language allows to write type- and thread-safe,
high-level programs using state machines or functional programming.

For Control Kernel users, a GUI ('kernelclient') was designed for
KDE 3 which allows to interact with the Control Kernel, directly
or using a CORBA interface. The latter allows to monitor multiple
Control Kernel Servers with one frontend.

Also, the installation process of Orocos has been streamlined and
the (html/pdf/ps) manuals had a layout and text review.

Feature improvements and bugfixes in comparison to 0.18.0 can be found in :
  <http://www.orocos.org/releases/orocos-changes-0.18.1.html>
Feature improvements, bugfixes and caveats in comparison to 0.16.0  can be 
found in :
  <http://www.orocos.org/releases/orocos-changes-0.18.0.html>

Orocos can be downloaded using this script :
  <http://www.orocos.org/releases/orocos-install.tcl>
which is invoked as in :
  $ sh orocos-install.tcl

Consult the <http://www.orocos.org/download.php> page for the requirements for 
compiling Orocos.

Peter
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Peter Soetens, Research Assistant                  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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