+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 <zalidis@gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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