This page is for planning for Electric Emys.

Integration notes

• pr2_doors pulled due to eigen3 issues
• wg_robots_gazebo pulled due to pr2_doors dep

Updates for core system

• rosbuild2 prototype
• source rosdeps (required for rosbuild2, easier multi-platform support)
  • test cases (openni drivers and

• unary stacks http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0109.html

  • Test cases stage(wrapper example)
• Remove ros::Message inheritance

Experimental

• rosjava, ROS on Android

• rosserial, aka ROS on Arduino

• multimaster_experimental, app_manager

Infrastructure

• New toolchain for pushing non-ROS debian packages into ROS repository
• (?) distro-specific indexing (partial support, e.g. roslocate)

Other updates

• robot_model:

  • new simmechanics_to_urdf package

  • improved URDF/COLLADA integration
  • package structure redesign for clean dependencies
  • use rosdeps for assimp, tinyxml

  • split off robot_model_visualization and robot_model_tutorials

• visualization: interactive_markers

• openni_kinect: rewritten driver

• vision_opencv:

  • OpenCV 2.3
  • OpenCV moved to be a rosdep system install

• geometry

  • eigen:

    • Move to full eigen3
    • Eigen gets installed as rosdep
    • Separate eigen stack for backwards compatibility of include flags

  • orocos_kinematics_dynamics: Separate stack for KDL related packages

  • bullet: Separate stack. Attempt to normalize on standard Bullet based on patches that Bullet did/did not accept upstream.

  • get optimizations from tf2 into tf. e.g. 100x speedup for canTransform method.

• stage: unary stack

• image_pipeline: New nodelets for depth-RGB registration, emulating ROI/binning, and working with depth images, to be migrated from openni_camera_unstable. Support 16-bit encodings and YUV.

• joy: Add header to joy msg, joy now part of sensor_msgs

• image_common: substitution variables in camera_info_manager URLs.

• navigation: Much improved support for dynamic reconfigure in the navigation stack.

• common: breaking apart stack to minimize downstream dependencies:

  • nodelet_core: stack

  • bond_core: stack

  • pluginlib: stack

  • tinyxml: rosdep

  • yaml_cpp: rosdep

• common_rosdeps: new stack that contains rosdep.yaml specifications for all low-level stacks.

Documentation reviews

1.0 Stacks

• perception_pcl

• arm_navigation

New stacks

• camera_pose

• audio_common - sound_drivers(sound_play) will be moved here.

Stacks requiring update

• ROS tutorials (vet for old syntax)
• common
• tf (check tutorials)
• smach (tutorials incomplete)
• pr2_controllers
• mechanism_controllers
• pr2_simulator (tutorial clean up)
• cv_bridge (tutorial clean up)

• visualization (interactive markers)

• review open questions about tutorials: http://answers.ros.org/questions/?query=tutorials&search=search

• all released stacks should look at their open questions on answers.ros.org

Potential additions

• update stack/package header to include visual distinction between a released and unreleased stack

Bumped

• dynamic_reconfigure: support for groups

• debug flag stripping <<Ticket(ros 3365)>>

• automation for add your repository to the ROS ecosystem
• Gazebo 1.0

• simulator_gazebo: Modify ROS to match new Gazebo 1.0 API. This will entail changes to urdf2gazebo, gazebo_plugins, gazebo_msgs, gazebo_worlds

• pr2_simulator: Modify pr2_gazebo, pr2_gazebo_plugins, pr2_examples_gazebo to match new Gazebo 1.0 API.