Changelog for package rosbot_utils

1.2.1 (2026-08-14)

1.2.0 (2026-08-12)

• Restore vendored stb_image.h and the controllers pin rationale (#189) clang-format rewrote 6.3k lines of upstream stb_image v2.30 before the third_party exclusion landed, so the file could no longer be resynced against upstream.

• Merge pull request #188 from husarion/feature/twist-mux-controller Feature/twist mux controller

• Move animation_publisher parameters into the model config

• Follow cmd_vel source on the LED strip nav2 driving shows the navigation animation, a human or nobody shows ready. The controller latches the source, so the subscription has to be transient_local + reliable.

• Add navigation animation and rename car_wave to ready

• Rename animation and add choices

• pre-commit fix

• Clean up

• Select LED animations from config_dir without a restart current_animation now re-reads <name>.png/.yaml from disk on every set, so a PNG dropped into config_dir needs no driver restart. create_config_dir no longer aborts the whole copy on a dangling symlink.

• Restore led_strip/enable service on animation_publisher The service is documented in ROS_API.md but was lost when the led_strip_car_wave/rainbow nodes were retired.

• feat(rosbot_utils): parameter-selectable LED animation publisher Replace the two hard-coded LED nodes (led_strip_rainbow / led_strip_car_wave) with a single animation_publisher that plays user-definable PNG animations (row = frame, column = LED) selected by the current_animation node parameter.

  - Animations are auto-discovered from rosbot_utils/animations (shipped) and an optional user dir; each is a <name>.png + <name>.yaml sidecar (frequency, brightness, optional color tint). Filename stem = animation name.

  - Publishes the firmware contract unchanged: sensor_msgs/Image 1x18 rgb8, BEST_EFFORT, at the animation's frequency. Wider PNG rows are cropped to the first 18 columns, narrower rows padded black.

  - current_animation is validated on set (on-set-parameters callback); the reserved 'none' publishes nothing so the firmware idle animation shows.

  - Ships turn-off-lights, rainbow, car_wave (rainbow/car_wave pre-rendered from the retired procedural nodes; car_wave stays the default, so behaviour is preserved). PNGs decoded with vendored stb_image (no new system dep).

  - rosbot_xl.yaml gains led_animation / led_animation_user_dir args feeding the node; test_led_strip.py covers the frame contract + parameter validation.

• Contributors: Rafal Gorecki, dominikn, rafal-gorecki

1.1.1 (2026-06-29)

• Add led_strip/enable service + arm64 simulation image
• Bump firmware to v2.0.2-jazzy
• Contributors: rafal-gorecki

1.1.0 (2026-06-15)

• Exit non-zero when firmware flashing fails (#183)
• Pin UART flash baudrate to 115200; drop dead flash comments
• Harden FTDI reset: re-bind ftdi_sio instead of usbreset
• Bump firmware to v2.0.1-jazzy
• Fix /dev/rosbot race in FTDI pre-comm reset
• Fix FTDI flashing broken by #180; pin baudrate to 115200
• Add contract test for C++ led_strip nodes (#182)
• Pin console log format; migrate LED-strip nodes to C++ (#181)
• Drop laser_filter; reliable FTDI USB firmware flashing (#180)
• Add MAVLink backend alongside micro-ROS (runtime-switch firmware) (#175)
• Namespace audit + bringup quieting + docs/test cleanup (#173)
• Tests: CI coverage for every rosbot_* package (#171)

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file