File Release Notes and Changelog
Notes:
Washington University Robot Development Environment, version 1.0
Copyright 2007 Washington University in St. Louis
Application source code is covered by the GPL; Core libraries are covered
by the LGPL.
WURDE 1.0 requires the following software:
-Xerces-C
-libxml-dom-perl
-CMU IPC (www.cs.cmu.edu/~IPC/)
WURDE 1.0 strongly recommends:
-libdc1394 2.0.0 pre7 (exact release: API is not yet finalized)
-OpenCV 0.9.7
-FLTK
-Directed Perception PTU code (for this piece of hardware)
Configure options:
--without-apps : disable building of applications (core libraries only)
--without-vision : disable vision support
--without-firewire : disable firewire support (removes most vision
functionality)
--with-ptu : enable directed perception PTU support (see below)
This release does not include Doxygen documentation; new documentation will be
available soon, but until that time, the API has not changed significantly
from pre-release versions. See http://wurde.sf.net for the older Doxygen
documentation and the Programming Guide.
To use the Directed Perception Pan-Tilt Unit, you must have a copy of the linux
driver from Directed Perception. We cannot distribute this code at this time;
see modules/ptu/README for more information.
The SICK laser module contains some code from the Carmen project. See
http://carmen.sf.net for more information.
Currently supported robot models are the iRobot B21r and the iRobot ATRV Jr.
It should be possible to use other RFlex-based robots with this code.
For more information about WURDE, please join the wurde-users email list on
sourceforge.net or email fwph@wustl.edu. Please let us know if this software
has been useful!
A technical report detailing the inner workings of WURDE will be available
February 2007.
Changes:
2007-01-22:
- Version 1.0 official release
- Major changes from pre-release:
+ Project renamed WURDE
+ Added autotools build system
+ Completed isolation of communications adaptor code
