[ros-users] Announcing new ROS repositories: cn-roscs-ros-pkg, cn-alica-ros-pkg, and cn-util-ros-pkg

[Hendrik Skubch]

Hi Tully,

Thanks for the suggestion, a rosinstall file for all stacks is now up at
http://cn-roscs-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/git/cn-all.rosinstall

Cheers,
	Hendrik.

On 05/15/2012 05:33 AM, Tully Foote wrote:
> Hi Hendrik,
>
> Thanks for the announcement.  Would you be willing to host a rosinstall
> file where you could maintain the list of your released stacks?  We
> generally recommend this of people releasing more than one stack so that
> if they want to update what gets indexed they can do so without needing
> to have us do the updates for them.  Often people just put the file into
> their source repositories and provide a raw download link to it.
>
> Thanks,
> Tully
>
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Hendrik Skubch <skubch at vs.uni-kassel.de
> <mailto:skubch at vs.uni-kassel.de>> wrote:
>
>     Dear ROS community,
>
>     we are happy to announce three new ROS repositories:
>
>     - cn-roscs-ros-pkg (http://code.google.com/p/cn-__roscs-ros-pkg/
>     <http://code.google.com/p/cn-roscs-ros-pkg/>)
>
>     This stack contains a single package: roscs, which provides C#
>     wrappers for ROS. It does not support the complete ROS
>     functionality, but the parts we deemed most important, namely
>     publish / subscribe, service calls, limited support for parameters
>     and some minor functionality. We are using this under Linux with
>     mono, Windows is not tested and will probably not work.
>
>     - cn-util-ros-pkg (http://code.google.com/p/cn-__util-ros-pkg/
>     <http://code.google.com/p/cn-util-ros-pkg/>)
>
>     This stack contains some useful utility libraries, namely:
>     - cstf, which wraps some tf methods in C#,
>     - Castor, a utility library for reading and writing configuration
>     files from C++ and C#,
>     - udp_proxy_generator - Generates multicast proxies for ros topics.
>     It is a very simple approach to a multi master environment, no
>     namespace or topic remappings are done, messages are simply relayed.
>     Given a configuration file, which specifies topics and message
>     types, C++ code for a proxy is generated and compiled.
>
>     - cn-alica-ros-pkg (http://code.google.com/p/cn-__alica-ros-pkg/
>     <http://code.google.com/p/cn-alica-ros-pkg/>)
>
>     This stack holds ALICA, a framework to coordinate and control
>     multiple robots. It consists of three packages:
>             - Planmodeller - an Eclipse-based IDE to model
>               multi-robot behaviour.
>             - AlicaEngine - an execution layer for the designed programs.
>             - AlicaClient - a simple monitoring GUI.
>     At its core, ALICA, similar to SMACH, uses hierarchies of
>     state-automata to define behaviour. In contrast to SMACH, it is
>     geared at teams of robots, and features task and role allocation
>     algorithms and coordinated constraint solving and optimisation
>     facilities.
>
>     This is part of an ongoing effort to make the source code of the
>     RoboCup Mid-Size Team Carpe Noctem publicly available. All this
>     software is used on our MSL robots. Documentation will be added to
>     the wiki once indexed.
>     This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?__v=HhIrhU19PG4
>     <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhIrhU19PG4> shows the software in
>     action during the Dutch Open 2012 tournament.
>
>     Many thanks,
>             Hendrik Skubch
>             Distributed Systems Group
>             University of Kassel
>             Carpe Noctem
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> Tully Foote
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