CHANGELOG

Changelog for package webots_ros2

2023.1.2 (2024-04-08)

  • Fixed errors showing up when launching moveit for ur5e.

  • Fixed nav2 turtlebot test failing very often.

  • Fixed build and tests for rolling.

  • Fixed deprecated ros_controls command: cmd_vel_unstamped.

  • Remove usage of deprecated resource manager method: activate_all_components().

  • Set is_urdf_loaded__ of the resource manager to true.

2023.1.1 (2023-07-11)

  • Added deprecation message when declaring driver node in launch file.

  • Fixed RangeFinder activation to also check for point cloud subscriptions.

  • Added component remapping parameter to WebotsController to rename PROTO components.

  • Added animation_{start,stop}_recording services to Ros2Supervisor node.

  • Added /Ros2Supervisor namespace to Ros2Supervisor node.

  • Fixed Python plugin termination on SIGINT call or simulation ends.

2023.1.0 (2023-06-29)

  • Added Ros2Pen static plugin.

  • Added support for Navigation2 in Iron.

  • Clean simulation reset in launch files.

  • Fixed Universal Robot trajectory interpolation.

  • Added new TIAGo project to webots_ros2_tiago to run real robot configuration.

  • Added new WebotsController node in the driver interface to launch robot controller plugins.

  • Fixed unfound robot window library in Tesla example.

  • Default to canonical topic name and fix camera_info stamp in Ros2Camera, Ros2RangeFinder.

  • Added VacuumGripper gripper support in webots_ros2_driver.

  • Added BoolStamped message in webots_ros2_msgs.

  • Added GetBool service in webots_ros2_msgs.

  • Fixed webots_ros2_control component activation.

2023.0.4 (2023-05-23)

  • Drop support for Foxy.

  • Fixed vertical field of view in static RangeFinder plugin.

  • Added support for painted point clouds.

  • Fixed ability to launch RViz without other tools in e-puck example.

  • Fixed command line arguments in importer tools.

  • Added custom handler in driver interface to start nodes when Webots is ready.

2023.0.3 (2023-04-12)

  • Fixed the calibration of the TIAGo.

  • Improved the navigation of the TIAGo example.

  • Added Cartographer for SLAM in the TIAGo example.

  • Adding port, stream type parameters to webots_laucher

  • Copying .wbproj when launching a Webots world via webots_launcher

  • Added Emitter and Receiver support in webots_ros2_driver

  • Changed undefined Lidar frequency to the default from the .proto file

  • Added Compass support in webots_ros2_driver

  • Added startup of the Turlebot navigation and mapping tools from the launch file.

  • Fixed the calibration of the e-puck.

  • Fixed and improved the navigation of the e-puck example.

2023.0.2 (2023-02-07)

  • Drop support for Galactic.

  • Fixed the spawn of URDF robots in WSL and macOS when using full path.

  • Fixed relative assets in macOS.

  • Ros2Supervisor is now optional.

2023.0.1 (2023-01-05)

  • Fixed relative assets in WSL.

  • Fixed broken controller connection in Rats life example.

2023.0.0 (2022-11-30)

  • Added support for the new Python API of Webots R2023a

  • Convert C++ controller API functions to C

  • Replace libController submodule by commited source files

  • Removed ‘webots_ros2_core’ package (deprecated).

  • Allow custom motor-encoder pair.

2022.1.4 (2022-11-18)

  • Fixed the camera focal length in the CameraInfo topic.

  • Upgraded to urdf2webots 2.0.3

  • Update the calculation of CameraRecognitionObject messages to the RDF convention of R2022b.

2022.1.3 (2022-11-02)

  • Added macOS support.

  • Added reset handler to all examples to support simulation reset from Webots.

2022.1.2 (2022-10-21)

  • Added WSL support.

2022.1.0 (2022-09-23)

  • Adapted controllers to communicate with Webots R2022b.

  • Added feature to import URDF on the fly.

  • Added PointCloud2 support for RangeFinder.

1.2.3 (2022-06-01)

  • Fixed support for Humble and Rolling.

1.1.2 (2021-11-03)

  • Adapted the ‘webots_ros2_driver’ package to be also a python alternative to the ‘webots_ros2_core’ package.

  • Replaced the use of the deprecated ‘webots_ros2_core’ package by the ‘webots_ros2_driver’ package.

  • Removed the ‘webots_ros2_example’, ‘webots_ros2_tutorials’ and ‘webots_ros2_abb’ packages.

  • Replaced the ‘webots_ros2_tiago’ package.

1.1.0 (2021-07-19)

  • Included the ‘webots_ros2_driver’ package as a C++ alternative to the ‘webots_ros2_core’ package.

  • Integrated ros2_control.

  • Included a Mavic drone simulation example

1.0.5 (2021-01-08)

  • Improved performance of the camera.

  • Replaced tkinter with simple command-line tools.

  • Fixed usage on Windows.

  • Introduced notion of minimum and target Webots versions.

1.0.1 (2020-09-18)

  • Removed the ‘webots_ros2_desktop’ package.

  • Added missing ‘webots_ros2_demos’, ‘webots_ros2_epuck’ and ‘webots_ros2_msgs’ packages as dependencies.

1.0.0 (2020-09-01)

  • Improved support for macOS

0.0.3 (2020-06-15)

  • Updated to Webots R2020a

0.0.2 (2019-09-23)

  • Moved sources to cyberbotics/webots_ros2 (https://github.com/cyberbotics/webots_ros2)

  • Added a ‘webots_ros2_msgs’, ‘webots_ros2_core’, ‘webots_ros2_desktop’, ‘webots_ros2_examples’ ‘webots_ros2_abb’ and ‘webots_ros2_universal_robot’ packages

  • Added support for ABB robots.

0.0.1 (2019-08-09)

  • Initial version