Fetch Binary Drivers

This is a public binary version of our drivers and firmware for the Fetch Research Platforms.

https://fetchrobotics.com/robotics-platforms/

We have two Fetch Research Platforms. Commonly known as Fetch and Freight. Fetch is the one with the arm. The drivers and firmware in this package are for both.

https://docs.fetchrobotics.com/

Fetch Drivers

The catkin package inside of this folder is called fetch_drivers, not fetch_binary_drivers. This is because we’ve previously been releasing packages which depend on fetch_drivers. We’re just changing how we distribute our drivers.

About

This package should only be needed if you’re using one of the Fetch Research Platforms.

Our goal is to better support our our Fetch Research Platform customers through an improved, more automated build and release process. This will get enable us to get updates out faster.

We discussed at ROSCon 2018 in a talk “Hermetic Robot Deployment Using Multi-Stage Dockers” by @levavakian & @bluryi some of our internal way of doing build/test/deployment using Docker: Video, Slides.

This public repository, is designed to consume the output of our private fetch_drivers repository and enable Fetch Research Platform users access to the drivers/firmware faster via the official ros packages.

To create the output of our private package, we have a special build job which runs inside of a docker container to ensure we don’t accidentally pull in any private dependencies, and also doesn’t output any of the additional commercial robot drivers.

Previously, we built our drivers on a private buildbot, and hosted them on our own packages site. We also had a manually synced mirror of the ros packages. This allowed us to ensure we tested the versions of dependancies which were on our mirror. The old process was not as automated as we would like.

We’re in the process of testing ROS Melodic, and setting up our hosted stable mirror, and documenting the upgrade process to ensure Fetch Research Platform customers have a smooth transition.

We will announce to our customers when we’re officially ready and supporting ROS Melodic.

See https://docs.fetchrobotics.com for more information.

Changelog for package fetch_drivers

0.8.9 (2021-03-06)

• Initial Noetic release
• Updates maintainers
• Contributors: Alex Moriarty, Russell Toris

0.8.8 (2019-08-21)

• Binary Drivers 0.8.8 (#52)
  • Sync drivers with internal release 2018.8_stable.
  • This fixes https://github.com/fetchrobotics/fetch_ros/issues/70
• Merge pull request #1647 from moriarty/opensource-fixes This addresses https://github.com/fetchrobotics/fetch_ros/issues/70
• Docker based testing 2.0 (#1332)
• More LED Diagnostics [2018.8] (#1510)
• Merge pull request #1504 from dbking77/publish_gyro_offset_age.8
  • Extra gyro diagnostics 2018.8
  • Publish gyro offset age.
  • Record interval average for gyro offset.
  • Publish average gyro temperature.
• Merge pull request #1398 from dbking77/slower_gyro_drift_fix-2018.8
  • Put slightly more aggressive filter on wheel motion detector.
  • Also don't keep gyro output enabled for a long time unless robot has been moving for a while.
• Backport driver creation system [2018.8] (#1369)
• Merge pull request #1364 from dbking77/combined_gyro_zeroing_fix_2018.8
• Merge pull request #1335 from dbking77/combined_gyro_output_disable_delay_2018.8
• Merge pull request #1306 from dbking77/charger_config_improvements_for_2018.8
• Merge pull request #1309 from dbking77/accel_direction_fixup_for_2018.8
• added nav command sub to light driver (#1314)
• Support for mainboard rev I and J
• Merge pull request #1259 from dbking77/imu_param_description_fix
• Merge branch '2018.6_stable' into master
• Merge pull request #1202 from moriarty/compatibility-fixes
  • [ROS][C++] Indigo & Melodic Compatibility fixes
  • [C++] urdf/model.h upstream compatibility ptr
  • This fixes #1181
  • and can fix fetchrobotics/fetch_ros#86
  • [C++] additional [-Werror=catch-value=] fixes
  • [C++] catch errors by const ref
• More extensive docker stuff as well as a fix for testing master (#1186)
• Use std::isnan instead of isnan
• Add missing catkin dependencies for actionlib messages
• Move header files shared by driver and firmware to shared directory. (#1167)
  • Moving header files shared by driver and firmware to shared directory.
  • Put shared structs/enums in fetch_drivers::shared namespace.
  • Change include of stdint.h cstdint.
  • Put BoardFlags, PanelFlags, and TorsoSensorParams in a struct.
  • Update gitignore to ignore bootloader and firmware.
• Merge pull request #1187 from chadrockey/1604_fixes
• Contributors: Alexander Moriarty, Andrew Parker, Carl Saldanha, Chad Rockey, Derek King, Eric Relson, Jeff Wilson, Justin Watson, Luc Bettaieb, Niharika Arora, Sarah Elliott

0.8.7 (2019-08-06)

0.8.6 (2019-02-28)

• Merge pull request #36 from fetchrobotics/install-laser-filters [fetch_drivers] Catkin Install missed laser filters
• Contributors: Alexander Moriarty, Carl Saldanha

0.8.5 (2019-02-26)

• [FIX] missing laser filter plugins

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