0.5.0 (2010-01-18)

hokuyo_node

  • Merged two of the diagnostic statuses that were being reported. Now there are only two, which is less confusing.
  • Frequency diagnostics get reset in more cases; should result in fewer spurious low frequency warnings.
  • Message cleanup. Should now display a message each time an error arises, and each time it recovers.
  • Helpful error messages. Should now give a better idea of what is wrong, and point you at the Troubleshooting page.
  • Made reads non-blocking so to avoid race conditions upon concurrent access to the port by a misbehaving process.
  • Documentation review completed.
  • Made the laser reset procedure robust in the case where the laser is still streaming data.

0.4.1 (2010-01-14)

* hokuyo_node: Changed getID so it retries for at least 10 seconds before giving up. This is necessary as the hokuyo takes a while after being plugged in before it is ready to accept commands.

  • hokuyo_node: Fixed a bug that would lock up the driver on certain reconfigure events.

0.4.0 (2010-01-14)

hokuyo_node

  • Took out a race condition from the port locking code.
  • Made allowable angle range be [-pi:pi].
  • Added error checking for out-of-range angles.
  • Detects if intensity mode is supported and automatically turns it off if it is not supported.
  • Reports firmware version, version name, product name, and protocol version in diagnostics.
  • Increased character limit on exception messages.
  • Fixed the initialization sequence to properly handle a laser that is scanning.

0.3.0 (2010-01-11)

  • Adjusted messages so that the driver will not spew messages when it manages to open a device but fails to get all the way running.
  • Updated licenses and package/stack descriptions.
  • Removed the node description from doxygen.

0.2.0 (2009-12-23)

  • First stable release

Wiki: laser_drivers/ChangeList/Pre-1.0 (last edited 2010-07-26 18:26:31 by KenConley)