1.6.5 (Forthcoming)

• collada_parser

  • Read dynamics info from collada <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5429)>>

  • collada parser fixes with inertial frames and parent_to_joint_origin_transform

1.6.4 (2012-01-06)

• urdf_interface and urdf_parser and collada_urdf

  • Changed #include <ros/ros.h> to #include <ros/console.h> where possible to remove implicit dependency on roscpp whenever depending on urdf_interface

• collada_parser

  • Deal with fixed joints correctly <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5269)>>

  • Ambient color fixes due to rviz bug <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5237)>>

• urdf_parser

  • Don't check for existence of mesh files in the parser <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5269)>>

• colladadom

  • Fix hard-coded boost path in colladadom patch for Mac OS. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5314)>>

1.6.3 (2011-11-02)

• collada_urdf and kdl_parser

  • Explicitly link with tinyxml. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5211)>>

• kdl_parser

  • Add warning for when root link has inertia <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5231)>>

1.6.2 (2011-10-28)

• ivcon

  • Patch by Vincent Rabaud for oneiric - fix math library linking

• collada_urdf kdl_parser rosdep.yaml

  • Patch by Wiliam Woodall for homebrew osx lion support

1.6.1 (2011-09-06)

• OS X Lion Homebrew support from wjwwood.

• collada_parser

  • Patch by William Woodall to fix collada_parser linking problem on OSX. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5138)>>

• colladadom

  • Patch by William Woodall to make colladadom build on OSX x86_64. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5139)>>

• urdf

  • Patch by William Woodall to fix urdf linking problem on OSX. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 5140)>>

1.6.0 (2011-08-10)

Changes since robot_model 1.4:

• Major reorganization of the urdf code:

  • New packages urdf_interface, urdf_parser and collada_parser.

  • Clean up dependencies and allow for smooth Collada integration.
  • User API is unchanged

• resource_retriever:

  • Add Python resource retriever, provided by David Lu. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4951)>>

• urdf

  • Add missing check_urdf tool that supports both URDF and COLLADA format.
  • Support constructing a C++ URDF model from a Collada description. This API backwards compatible change allows you to replace the xml URDF with an xml Collada file, without modifying any code.

  • Split urdf_parser away from urdf stack.

  • Support multiple <collision> and <visual> for a single link, with optional group name assignments.

• collada_urdf

  • exporting physics data

• kdl_parser

  • Support constructing a kdl tree directly from a Collada file

• robot_state_publisher

  • Support separate publishing of fixed joints, and joints from different joint state messages <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4464)>>

  • Fix publish timing for case with multiple joint state sources <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4464)>>. Patch from Ingo Kresse.

• Move to rosdep of assimp
• Move to rosdep of tinyxml