Very neat! Thanks for the contribution!


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Chris Zalidis <zalidis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are happy to announce the first release (v0.1) of STDR Simulator
> (Simple Two Dimensional Robot Simulator) ROS package. It is a fact that a
> variety of robot simulators is available. Some characteristic examples are
> the Player/Stage/Gazebo project, USARSim, Webots, V-REP and many many
> others. We acknowledge that these frameworks are state-of-the-art and
> provide a vast amount of services, ranging from realistic 3D simulation to
> hardware support. Though the prize you ought to pay is that they are either
> extremely architecturally complicated and confuse the novice robotics
> researcher or they require a lot of computational power to provide
> realistic 3D simulation. In addition, almost all of the pre-mentioned
> frameworks have a lot of dependencies that make the installation procedure
> time consuming and sometimes impossible due to dependency errors. What we
> envisioned was a simple simulator that its installation wouldn't require
> more than a few clicks, one that would allow the robotic researcher to
> materialize their ideas in a simple and efficient manner.
>
> That is why we decided to create STDR Simulator. STDR Simulator's two main
> goals are:
>
>    -
>
>    It doesn't aim to be the most realistic simulator, nor the one with
>    the most functionalities. Our intention is to make a single robot's, or a
>    swarm's simulation as simple as possible, by minimizing the needed actions
>    the researcher has to perform to start theirs experiment. In addition, STDR
>    can function with or without a graphical environment, which allows for
>    experiments to take place even using ssh connections.
>    -
>
>    STDR Simulator is created in a way that makes it totally ROS
>    compliant. Every robot and sensor emits a ROS transformation (tf) and all
>    the measurements are published in ROS topics. In that way, STDR uses all
>    ROS advantages, aiming at easy usage with the world's most state-of-the-art
>    robotic framework. The ROS compliance also suggests that the Graphical User
>    Interface and the STDR Server can be executed in different machines, as
>    well as that STDR can work together with ROS Rviz!
>
>
> We hope that STDR Simulator will be useful to the beginner robotics
> researcher aiming at comprehending the area, as well as to an advanced
> roboticist who wants to try his ideas in mapping, navigation or path
> planning.
>
> STDR Simulator is - of course - open source and can be downloaded from our
> Github page (https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator) or
> through the official ROS binary distributables (ros-hydro-stdr-simulator).
> Since this release is the initial one we expect things to not fully work,
> so it would perfect if you could provide us with some comments /
> suggestions / bugs that you discover. Our bug tracker is:
> https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator/issues.
>
> Finally you can find a detailed description of STDR Simulator in our wiki
> page or our website:
>
>
>    -
>
>    http://stdr-simulator-ros-pkg.github.io/
>    -
>
>    http://wiki.ros.org/stdr_simulator
>    -
>
>    Contact e-mail : stdr.simulator@gmail.com
>
>
>  The development team:
>
>    -
>
>    Manos Tsardoulias (administrator/developer), PhD in Electrical
>    Engineering (etsardou [at] gmail [dot] com)
>    -
>
>    Chris Zalidis (maintainer/developer), Student in Electrical
>    Engineering (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) (zalidis [at] gmail
>    [dot] com)
>    -
>
>    Aris Thallas (developer), Student in Electrical Engineering (Aristotle
>    University of Thessaloniki) (aris.thallas [at] gmail [dot] com)
>
>
>
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