Hi all,

We are going to spend a busy couple of months upgrading the applications platform (previously installed on turtlebot and pr2) with the aim of landing it in Turtlebot for either Hydro or Indigo depending on progress.

Primary Goals:

The first three are simply upgrades on what was roughly working on turtlebot and pr2:

1) Easy retasking

2) Convenient installation/upgrade mechanisms

3) Pairing mode for 1-1 control with autodiscovery

These are additional features we are planning to work on:

4) Concert mode for multi-robot research and solutions

5) Capability layer to simplify and improve the robot app portability

6) Properly do public/private interfaces to the robot (i.e. don't expose the internal master, nor all topics)

If you're interested in providing input, I've kickstarted a review page where any and all ideas are welcome.

Best place for discussion is probably on the multimaster sig mailing list.

Cheers,

Daniel (Yujin Robot)