[Robotics] MORSE 0.2 released

[Ruben Smits]

On Friday 21 January 2011 09:57:49 Ruben Smits wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2011 17:26:37 Séverin Lemaignan wrote:
> > We are glad to announce the official release of the BSD-licensed Modular
> > Open Robot Simulation Engine (MORSE) 0.2, codenamed "the Human-Robot
> > Interaction release".
> > 
> > 6 months of work, more than 600 commits and over 7500 lines of code (and
> > a fair amount of time spend building models in Blender) for this new
> > release!
> > 
> > Amongst the highlights:
> > - full support for Blender 2.5+/python3.1,
> > - a new "immersive" mode to control a human in the simulation,
> > - support for Kuka LWR and PA-10 arms,
> > - new sensors and actuators, including SICK laser scanner and a new high
> > level "semantic camera", which leads to more than 10 classes of
> > available robotic sensors, 8 classes of actuators and 3 complete robotic
> > platforms,
> > - a new homepage (http://morse.openrobots.org)
> 
> Some feedback on the homepage: It doesn't show at first site 

site->sight ;)

> what the
> project is about, I see logo's of partners and a smiley, then I have to
> scroll to see the rest (I have a 1920x1080 resolution screen). Wouldn't it
> be better to flip the contents of the site so that the first thing you see
> is something morse related?
> 
> > and a completely revamped
> > 
> > documentation, available here:
> >            http://www.openrobots.org/morse/doc
> > 
> > - a fresh morse-users at laas.fr mailing-list for community support and
> > discussions,
> 
> Where can I subscribe to this mailinglist? I haven't found a link on the
> morse site.
> 
> > - and of course, tons of bug fixes (nasty nasty 3D transformations!)
> > 
> > The complete changelog is online here [1].
> > The source is available from GitHub: https://github.com/laas/morse
> > 
> > Now, lets head to the exciting release 0.3 (it may well feature ROS and
> > PR2 support...who knows... :-) )
> > 
> > Happy simulation!
> > Séverin, for the MORSE team
> > 
> > [1] https://github.com/laas/morse/blob/master/RELEASE_NOTES
> 
> Ruben
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