create_driver

ROS driver for iRobot’s Create 1 and 2.

Changelog for package create_driver

3.0.0 (2023-05-13)

• Replace Travis CI with GitHub workflow and lint (#102)
• Update maintainer email
• Add parameter to enable the OI mode reporting bug workaround (#95)
• Add cliff sensors (#93)
• Add motor control (#97)
• Disable libcreate's signal handler (#89)
• Use rclcpp::spin instead of own implementation.
• Use Node::now instead of rclcpp::Clock::now.
• Make CreateDriver derive from rclcpp::Node.
• Fix latching condition (#72)
• Port to ROS 2 (foxy) (#8)
• Stricter compile options
• Switch to tf2
• Reduce diagonal covariance values
• Remove old install commands
• Move launch and config files to create_bringup
• Update maintainer info
• Fix catkin lint error
• Rename packages for clarity Originally the packages were named as 'create_autonomy', with the 'ca_' suffix for short. This was due to a name conflict with the turtlebot packages (e.g. create_driver and create_description): https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot_create.git Since the turtlebot packages are not released into ROS Melodic, the plan is to release these packages instead. If the turtlebot packages are eventually released, it should be straightforward to adapt them to use the description and driver packages here. Summary of renaming:
  • create_autonomy -> create_robot
  • ca_description -> create_description
  • ca_driver -> create_driver
  • ca_msgs -> create_msgs
  • ca_tools -> create_bringup
• Contributors: Jacob Perron, Josh Gadeken, Owen Hooper, Pedro Grojsgold, pgold

1.3.0 (2018-06-10)

• Add explicit dependency on catkin_EXPORTED_TARGETS

  • This ensures ca_msgs is built before ca_driver.

• Migrate to package.xml format 2

  • Minor linting to package files.

• Add roslint test and fix lint issues

• find_package libcreate instead of downloading as external project

• Add support for defining and playing songs

• Update install rules

• Refactor launch files and expose robot base and odometry frame IDs as parameters

• Refactor CMakeLists.txt and package.xml files and add missing install rules

• Contributors: Clyde McQueen, Jacob Perron

1.2.0 (2016-10-07)

• Add support for more than two robot models and fix compiling with latest changes from libcreate.
• Contributors: Ben Wolsieffer

1.1.0 (2016-07-23)

• Add diagnostics (Battery, Safety, Serial, Mode, Driver)
• Refactor URDF to support differences between Create 1 and 2, while using a common base.
• Include a mesh for the Create 1, borrowed from turtlebot_create.
• Update launch files to support Create 1.
• Publish JointState messages for the wheels.
• Contributors: Ben Wolsieffer, Jacob Perron

1.0.1 (2016-05-24)

• Get pose covariance from underlying library
• Make publishing TF (odom frame) optional
• Add launch file argument making description optional
• Update libcreate tag, with odometry patch
• Add git as build dependency
• Move ChargingState publisher with other battery state information

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