[ros-users] Moving from Player to ROS

[Dejan Pangercic]

Hi Amir,

I believe that Brian will better answer your question. Until then you
can browse the archive of this mailing list (keywords: player ros
migration) as this issue has been already discussed couple of times. I
see also that Brian has actually set up a wiki page dedicated to it
too: http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/PlayerIntegration.

As of my personal experience I have 2 strong arguments for using
Player over ROS, a)there is simply no features that Player can offer
me and ROS not, and b)the community of ROS is simply by orders of
magnitude bigger.
@Brian: Is Player actually still being actively developed?

D.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Amir H. Soltanzadeh <amirhst at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sorry for my general question!
>
> Since 2007 we use Player in our laboratory to develop accurate real-time 2D
> SLAM to be used in our mobile robots in rough terrain. At the time being we
> have a fine odometry-free 2D mapping in very harsh environments and we want
> to extent our system to be capable of autonomous navigation in such areas.
> Since this will be a relatively long-term project and ROS has potentially
> much more advantages in this area, I'm wondering whether we should move from
> Player to ROS (at the cost of loosing time) or not!
>
> Any advice or comment will be highly appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Amir
>
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