Thank you everybody for your useful advices; especially Brian for the link. (I hadn't seen that page before!)

I guess I found my answer: ROS covers our particular needs (moderated autonomous mobile manipulation in rough terrain) far more than Player. But first we should start feasibility study!

Thank you again!

- Amir

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Dejan Pangercic
<dejan.pangercic@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that Brian will better answer your question. Until then you
> can browse the archive of this mailing list (keywords: player ros
> migration) as this issue has been already discussed couple of times. I
> see also that Brian has actually set up a wiki page dedicated to it
> too: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/PlayerIntegration.

This page may also help:  http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Introduction#Goals.

> @Brian: Is Player actually still being actively developed?

Player is in the capable hands of Rich Mattes, who released v3.0.2 in
July.  There hasn't been much change in the middleware for some time
now.  These days it's mostly driver improvements and portability fixes
(e.g., you can get a Windows installer for Player 3.0.2; can't say
that for ROS, yet...).

       brian.
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