All,<br><br>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). <br>
<br>I&#39;ve uploaded two videos thus far showing the Neato:<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVEFlbuFO4">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVEFlbuFO4</a><br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwwssBjg6M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwwssBjg6M</a><br>
<br>I also have to announce our repository, since we&#39;ve never officially done that: <a href="http://albany-ros-pkg.googlecode.com">http://albany-ros-pkg.googlecode.com</a> <br><br>I hope to have documentation for this new stack on the ROS wiki later today/tonight. <br>
<br>Mike Ferguson<br>ILS Social Robotics Lab<br>SUNY Albany<br><a href="http://robotics.ils.albany.edu">http://robotics.ils.albany.edu</a><br>