Agreed! Looking forward to trying this out. -Matt > On 11 Feb 2014, at 5:23 am, Patrick Goebel wrote: > > +1. This is way cool. Great job! > > --patrick > > >> On 02/10/2014 10:19 AM, William Woodall wrote: >> Very neat! Thanks for the contribution! >> >> >>> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:06 AM, Chris Zalidis 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) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@lists.ros.org >>> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> >> >> -- >> William Woodall >> ROS Development Team >> william@osrfoundation.org >> http://williamjwoodall.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users