From: ahoward <ah...@us...> - 2003-08-01 01:10:10
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Hi folks: It gives us great pleasure to announce the first official release of Gazebo. You can grab it from the usual place: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42445 Make sure you read the release notes (appended below). Cheers, Andrew and Nate ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the first official release of the Gazebo simulation engine (hooray). In addition to these Release Notes, please read the General Usage chapter of the Gazebo Manual, available online here. This release includes the following models: * ActivMedia Pioneer2AT robot * SegwayRMP robot * SICK LMS200 scanning laser range-finder * Sony VID30 pan-tilt-zoom camera * MapExtruder for generating "extruded" worlds from image files Some additional important notes: * While the camera is fully functional, Player does not yet support image capture (on the way). * The world file format is still in flux, and is likely to change in future version. * The internal API for writing models has not been finalized; expect some changes in future versions. Installation notes: * Gazebo relies on the ODE engine for modelling rigid body dynamics; you will need to download and install this package before building Gazebo. ODE can be obtained from http://opende.sourceforge.net/ode.html. Unpack the tarball and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file. * Player users will need to install (or re-install) Player after installing Gazebo. To make use of the Gazebo drivers, use the --enable-gazebo configuration option. Compatability notes: * Gazebo is known to work with ODE versions 0.035 and 0.039, and Player version 1.4rc1. * Gazebo should work on any reasonable modern Linux distribution. It has also been tested on Mac OS X 10.2 using the Apple X11 package and Fink (see the manual for OS X specific build instructions). Installation example: for a default system-wide install (requires root access), use the following steps... * Build ODE according to the instructions included with that package. Copy the header files to /usr/local/include/ode and the library to /usr/local/lib. * Install Gazebo: $ ./configure; make; make install * (Re-)Install Player $ ./configure --enable-gazebo; make; make install Installation example: for an alternate user-only install (does not require root access), use the following steps... * Build ODE according to the instructions included with that package. Copy the header files to /home/username/local/include/ode and the library to /home/username/local/lib. * Install Gazebo: $ ./configure --prefix=/home/username/local; make; make install * (Re-)Install Player $ ./configure --prefix=/home/username/local --enable-gazebo; make; make install Andrew Howard email: ah...@po... Department of Computer Science http: www-robotics.usc.edu/~ahoward University of Southern California phone: 1 (213) 740 6416 Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. 90089-0781 fax: 1 (213) 821 5696 << Insert pithy saying here >>> |