[ros-users] STDR Simulator (Simple Two Dimensional Robot Simulator) ROS package

[Matt Willis]

Agreed! Looking forward to trying this out.

-Matt

> On 11 Feb 2014, at 5:23 am, Patrick Goebel <patrick at 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 at 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 at 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 at osrfoundation.org
>> http://williamjwoodall.com/
>> 
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