Agreed! Looking forward to trying this out.
-Matt
> On 11 Feb 2014, at 5:23 am, Patrick Goebel <patrick@pirobot.org> 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 <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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>>
>>
>> --
>> William Woodall
>> ROS Development Team
>> william@osrfoundation.org
>> http://williamjwoodall.com/
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