Dear all,

We are happy to announce that the current version of STDR Simulator is 0.2!
The changes compared to the v0.1.3 follow:


   - Several bugs were fixed
   - Code was refactored
   - Lidar resources were added
   - Added support of:
      - RFID tags and Readers
      - Thermal sources / sensors
      - CO2 sources / sensors
      - Sound sources / sensors


Special thanks to Sergey Alexandrov <https://github.com/taketwo> and Scott
K Logan <https://github.com/cottsay> for code contributions.

Our future plans:

   - Make the sensor measurements more realistic
   - Add simulated battery in robots
   - Detection of robots footprint via other robots' distance sensors
   - Add a simple physics engine

It would be excellent if any of you would like to contribute either by code
development <https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator>, issue
reporting or features request
<https://github.com/stdr-simulator-ros-pkg/stdr_simulator/issues>!

Best,
The STDR team.

-- 
Emmanouil G. Tsardoulias
PhD, Electrical Engineer