Hi Mike,

This is very cool.  We've been hoping to see a Neato driver.

I've added albany-ros-pkg to our indexers as well as the wiki:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/Repositories

When the indexers update, this page will fill in:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/albany-ros-pkg

And I reposted your announcement to ROS.org:
http://www.ros.org/news/2010/12/neato-xv-11-driver-for-ros-albany-ros-pkg.html

cheers,
Ken

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Michael Ferguson <mfergs7@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I would like to announce the availability of a simple driver for the Neato
> Robotics XV-11 for ROS. The neato_robot stack contains a neato_driver
> (generic python based driver) and neato_node package. The neato_node
> subscribes to a standard cmd_vel (geometry_msgs/Twist) topic to control the
> base, and publishes laser scans from the robot, as well as odometry. The
> neato_slam package contains our current move_base launch and configuration
> files (still needs some work).
>
> I've uploaded two videos thus far showing the Neato:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVEFlbuFO4
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwwssBjg6M
>
> I also have to announce our repository, since we've never officially done
> that: http://albany-ros-pkg.googlecode.com
>
> I hope to have documentation for this new stack on the ROS wiki later
> today/tonight.
>
> Mike Ferguson
> ILS Social Robotics Lab
> SUNY Albany
> http://robotics.ils.albany.edu
>
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