April 30, 2009
Some days ago I gave a talk at the University of Málaga on jderobot, describing its main features as middleware for robot programming. I was invited by Cristina Urdiales, from the Robotics and Artificial Vision Group of the Department of Electronic Technology.
You can find here the slides that I used in the presentation (in Spanish) . They provide a good overview of the current state of the jderobot project, its principles, foundations and software design. They also present the collection of currently available drivers, developed components, sample applications, etc.
April 16, 2009
The new stable release of jderobot has been launched, it is the 4.3.0 release. You can find it here for download or simply install it from debian packages. Many bugs have been fixed, it includes many improvements and new features:
- Project code managed with AutoTools
- Debian packages created (for ubuntu-hardy, debian-lenny and debian-sid)
- Application name changed to JDEROBOT
- All the code is now licensed by GPL v3.0
- Improved shell
- New drivers: video4linux2, evi (for Sony VID30PTZ) and wiimote.
- New schemas: a camera calibrator, extrinsics, opencvdemo, wiioperator, etc.
Check its release notes for further details.
In addition, several development tools are now used: mediawiki web site, svn repository, trac…. A community has been gathered around the project. We mainly use two mailing lists for communication: jde-users@gsyc.es and jde-developers@gsyc.es.
Most of the developer team gathered at a pizza party on 2009/03/20 to celebrate the jderobot-4.3.0 launch.
Enjoy!
