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RELEASE_NOTES
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MORSE 0.3 - "Itizpossible" release
==================================
General changes
---------------
- Added preliminary support for Blender 2.57 (with Python 3.2)
- Removed support for Blender 2.49
Architectural changes
---------------------
- MORSE now support *services* to configure components
and the general behaviour of the simulation at runtime. Services
can be either synchronous or asynchronous.
- Addition of a variable to keep track of the time elapsed in seconds
since the simulation started.
Middlewares
-----------
- Initial support for the ROS (http://www.ros.org) middleware.
- ROS: Odometry, joint state and laser scanner sensors are exported using standard
messages.
- Sockets: services (RPC) are available
- YARP: services (RPC) are available
New sensors/actuators
---------------------
- clever waypoint controller that avoids obstacles
Simulation supervision
----------------------
- Add a shortcut to switch between camera during the simulation (F9)
- Add a shortcut to replace all objects at their initial position without
relaunching the simulation (F11)
- Add support for the Wiimote to control the human in HRI simulations
(external tool using socket-based requests)
- Requests: ensure some working control of the simulation
based on the socket interface (only restart for now)
MORSE 0.2 - The HRI release
===========================
General changes
---------------
- Switch to Blender 2.5: MORSE now officialy supports Blender 2.5x (x>=4) and
the support for Blender 2.49 has been dropped.
- This means that MORSE is now fully Python 3 compatible. New code must be from
now valid Python 3 code.
- MORSE homepage is now http://morse.openrobots.org/
- Documentation has been converted to reStructuredText. HTML version automatically updated
every hour to http://morse.openrobots.org/doc/
- A MORSE bugtracker is now available: https://softs.laas.fr/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?product=morse
Architectural changes
---------------------
- Components have "hooks" to export their data. Middleware lives in parallel
threads and "visit" the components. In this case, middlewares still lives
in the Python VM. Advantage: better decoupling ; middleware can dynamically
choose what they want to watch.
- Add 'serialize' methods to the data of each component. This formats the
data according to the needs of each middleware/architecture.
Support for human-robot interaction
-----------------------------------
- MORSE now offers a human model. It can be controlled in a "first person shooter"-like
mode, enabling immersive simulation of human-robot interaction:
- mouse-based interactive displacement and grasping of objects (using IK to ensure
consistent, fully body motion)
- 40-DOF human posture (joint state) is exported by a new sensor called 'human_posture'
New sensors/actuators
---------------------
- Support for the PA-10 and Kuka arms. They can be controlled either by specifying
a target that the arm tries to reach (using Blender ITASC IK solver) or by
sending a set of joint angles.
- new simple waypoint controller: this 'high-level' controller allows to give
only a list of waypoint to the robot. The simulator takes care of the navigation
(currently, simple straight lines, without any sort of obstacle avoidance)
- "Semantic camera" sensor: MORSE can export position, orientation and name
of specifically marked objects that are visible by a camera.
- we now have a fully simulated SICK laser sensor.
Other features
--------------
- Possibility to control the camera when the game engine runs (with keyboard,
mouse, or attach some view to some robots)
- Support for Ubuntu 10.04 (hi Lorenz!)
- Added LAAS Jido robot model with Kuka arm
- fixed several issues with camera calibration in Blender
- Added several posters for Genom middleware
- Fixed the accelerometer sensor
- fixed several issues with transformation coordinates
MORSE v 0.1 - The outdoor robotics release - 28/07/2010
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First version