Dear manipulators,<div><br><div>My colleague, who attended ROSCON, brought me news about a fancy new tool for manipulation called &quot;MoveIt!&quot;. Unfortunately, I couldn&#39;t find much additional information besides this brief article [1].&nbsp;It announces that there will be some major restructuring done for the arm_navigation stack, such as moving core functionality to MoveIt!.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since I am going to work a lot with the arm_navigation stack soon, I would be happy, if the authors of MoveIt! and the arm_navigation stack would share some insights on their plans. I want to avoid doing work on&nbsp;soon to be changed software such as making&nbsp;bug fixes&nbsp;and developing additional&nbsp;functionalities. For example,&nbsp;I need to make the arm_navigation stack working with a 5 or even 3 DOF arm.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Furthermore, I noticed that there is no SIG about anything related to motion planning, arm navigation, manipulation etc. I know it is a bit late, but it might would be good to create a SIG for people interested in manipulation and the (further) development of the arm_navigation stack and MoveIt!. What do you think?</div>

<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Marcus</div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1]:&nbsp;<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06174325" target="_blank">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=06174325</a></div>
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