Hi orocos-dev, orocos-users, ros-users,

A first version of our Orocos/ROS integration is ready in the form of the 
orocos_toolchain_ros stack. 

The stack is available at:

- released version:

*  tarball:

http://people.mech.kuleuven.be/~rsmits/downloads/orocos_toolchain_ros-0.1.0.tar.bz2

* svn:

svn co http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-
pkg/stacks/orocos_toolchain_ros/tags/orocos_toolchain_ros-0.1.0 
orocos_toolchain_ros

- developers version:

svn co http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-
pkg/stacks/orocos_toolchain_ros/trunk orocos_toolchain_ros



The stack contains all of the Orocos Toolchain v2.0.1 except for the autoproj 
build system. The orocos_toolchain_ros stack contains patched versions of 
orogen and utilmm to automatically create ros packages instead of autoproj 
packages for the automatic typekit generation for c++ classes.

On top of the Orocos Toolchain v2.0 this stack contains:
* the rtt_ros_integration package. This package contains the following:
   - The ros-plugin: this RTT plugin allows Orocos/RTT components to contact 
the ROS master
   - CMake macro's to automatically create Orocos/RTT typekits and transport 
plugins from .msg files
* the rtt_ros_integration_std_msgs: This package shows how the CMake macro's 
have to be used, it creates the Orocos/RTT typekits and transport plugins for 
all roslib and std_msgs messages
* the rtt_ros_integration_example: This package shows how the 
rtt_ros_integration should be used from an Orocos/RTT user/developer point of 
view. It contains a HelloRobot component which can be contacted using 
'rostopic echo'

And last but not least the stack also includes the rtt_exercises package for 
Orocos/RTT new-commers.

The orocos_toolchain_ros stack itself still remains undocumented, I'm 
currently working on that, but documentation on the Orocos Toolchain can be 
found via: http://http://www.orocos.org/wiki/orocos/toolchain

If anyone has any questions please do not hesitate to contact the orocos-
users, orocos-dev or ros-users mailinglist.

Ruben
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Dr. Ir. Ruben Smits
Mechatronics & Robotics Research Group
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven