Changelog for package ubiquity_motor
0.10.0 (2019-11-10)
- Support for higher resolution odometry (firmware v35+ required)
- Tool to verify odometry consistency
- Support for target velocity term in the PID (firmware v35+ required)
- Firmware update script now supports local firmware files
- Firmware update script can use different serial port
- Support for reading motor controller version from I2C
- Safer E-STOP behavior (MCB 5.0+)
- Publishing the state of the estop switch
- Improved documentation
- Improvements to the testing scripts
- Contributors: Alexander Sergeenko, David Crawley, Mark Johnston, Rohan Agrawal
0.9.0 (2019-04-03)
- Allow selecting what firmware version to download
- Adding max motor forward and reverse speeds and max pwm settings all the way from ROS parameters to being pushed to the controller board.
- Analyze information to create diagnostics statuses
- Major update to test_motor_board.py that accepts greatly improved parameter read and set as well as ability to specify com port device to be used
- Adds support for set of hw rev and for pre rev 5.0 estop threshold
- Contributors: Mark Johnston, Rohan Agrawal
0.8.0 (2019-01-01)
- Added firmware loading tool
- Added misc testing scripts
- Don't die when communication not working, only print error
- Use std mutex/atomic instead of boost
- Reduce print level on integral/pid limits
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal
0.7.1 (2018-06-16)
- new pid params
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal
0.7.0 (2018-04-15)
- Add script to probe the robot for information
- Add Serial Protocol Documentation
Fixes #33
- Add ROS API documentation (#32)
* Add API documentation
* Remove unused serial_loop_rate variable
- Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal
0.6.1 (2017-11-12)
- Reset controller when time jumps (#31)
Reset the controller and zero commanded velocity an unexpected time change occurs (such as by NTP). This prevents unexpected robot motion.
- Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal
0.6.0 (2017-09-15)
- Publish battery voltage messages (#29)
Added battery status message calibrated on 4.4 board serial no 450
- Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal, David Crawley
0.5.2 (2017-05-06)
- Remove debug topics (#25)
* Remove debug topics
* Remove tests of debug registers
- Merge pull request #22 from UbiquityRobotics/suppresserrorsatstartup
Supress some potentially confusing warnings
- Increase error_threshold
- Merge pull request #23 from UbiquityRobotics/fix_acceleration_limits
Fix computaion of elapsed time so that it is +ve
- Fix computaion of elapsed time so that it is +ve
- Supress some potentially confusing warnings
- Clean out serial loop (#20)
* Transmit the the same thread caller, not in serial thread
* go back to debug on tranmissions
* Use smarter waits and reads in reading thread
* Get rid of serial loop rate
* Reformat
- Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal
0.5.1 (2017-03-04)
- Reduce flakey-ness of the tests
- Try to get firmware version, throw after 10 tries
- Code cleanup
- Use fixed sized arrays (not vectors) where they make sense
- Use a seperate shared_queue class
- Performance improvements
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal
0.5.0 (2016-09-04)
- NOTE: This version drops support for firmware versions before 24
- Use new 8-byte serial protocol
- Add support for using dynamic_reconfigure to change PID parameters
- Add support for setting the deadman timer via a parameter
- Add support for debug registers, do enable better firmware diagnostics
- Add support for limit reached warnings from firmware
- Improved testing, more coverage and cleaner tests
- Have motor_node explicitly return an exit code
- Reduce memory allocations caused by resizing vectors
- Use size_t instead of int for iterating
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal, Jim Vaughan
0.4.1 (2016-04-09)
- add support for firmware version 19
- add support for 0xDD (checksum) error response
- Make variable name for rejected bytes 'rejected'
- Reduce memcopy-ing
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal
0.4.0 (2016-03-08)
- Cleanup deps, have motor_node be linked to shared lib
- Update Copyright Dates
- Removed old motor_unit_test
- Moved motor_message_test
- Make the serial thread loop at the passed in value instead of always 1000
- Add interruption point to Serial Thread
- Comment out serial tests
- Added motor_serial_tests
- Always print firmware version
- fix up code that checks a firmware version response
- Using Async Spinner instead of roscontrol thread
- more command grouping
- reduced unnecessary output locking
using bool method like tony did with input
- reduce locking by grouping commands to send together
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal
0.3.2 (2015-11-28)
- Many fixes for bad odometery, more robust serial protocol
- Add code to speed up serial. Major improvements in latency to the motor board
- Contributors: atp42
0.3.1 (2015-10-12)
- fixed install rules for Cmake
- added license to test code
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal
0.3.0 (2015-09-20)
- Remove annoying debug print
- Fix numerous PID issues. First, add velocity reporting. Second, fix 10x unit error between specified velocity and actual. Third, make PID parameter changes actually world.
- actually calling the function now
- added pid params (hopefully)
- added more unit tests
- added some more unit test coverage, b/c I spent half an hour on an avoidable wild goose chase
- updated unit tests
- renamed motor command to motor message
- Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal
- Updated package.xml with new dependencies, bumped version number
- updated travis button
- Merge refactoring branch into indigo-devel
- cleaned up some stuff, and got odometery running
- added odom, and changed loop rates
- using the correct tics to radians, and now at 20hz
- cleaned up travis file
- forgot to remove bad include
- moved control loop to seperate thread to make it work
- converted branch to the indigo-devel code
- added missing ubiquity_motor.cpp
- changed logging from the output speeds to the input speeds
- whoops, fotgot to remove typedef for chrono
- removed boost_chrono dependency, less dependencies is better right
- explictly apt-get boost-chrono
- manually installing boost in travis
- changed travis notfications for slack
- Fix issue where serial data wouldn't print
Using a pointer for the motors object in the Motor Serial class, this allows for the initalization to be in the constructer.
- added slack integration to travis
- add slack intergration to travis
- working on making diff_drive_controller work
- fixed boost expection error
- Print ros_error on catch for better debugging
- worked on serial thread loop
- fix test
- more exception handling in thread
- added baud rate switch/case to prevent invalid bauds
- basic serial thread working
- change testsuite naming to ubiquity_motor_CLASS
- added catkin_make to travis because build errors fixed
- added mutexed add and get command functions
- added test cases for invalid type/register
- put header ifndef in motor_serial header
- redid motor_serial header with boost threads and std::queues
- added enum checking to getters and setters
- added deserialize verification
- started added comments to the code
- removed unnessary imports
- added incorrect checksum test case
- added deserialize funtionality and test
- added serialize and checksum functions
- fix typo in travis file
- changed travis config to run the tests
- added tests for motor command class
- Started adding unit tests
- fixed enum scoping errors
- fix wierd git problem
- renamed source files to follow ROS standard practices
- removed old files that we are not going to use
- changed motor command class to use new serial protocol spec
- testing build
- Merge pull request #2 from jim-v/hydro
Added child_frame_id to odom messages.
- Added child_frame_id to odom messages.
- Changed MotorDriver to MotorHardware
- added missing dependencies to package.xml to fix build errors
- Update README.md
- added header for motor driver class
- Merge pull request #1 from jim-v/hydro
Added covariance to the outgoing odom messages.
- Added covariance to the outgoing odom messages.
- removed old node files
- added serial dependency to package.xml
- Fixed build errors and removed Ubiquity prefix from classes
- changed travis branch to refactoring
- added serial reader thread and callback
- added BSD license to crc8 files
- added UbiquityMotorSerial class
- created UbiquityMotorCommand class
- add build status to README
- changed node graph name
- added travis configureation file
- Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Kurt Christofferson, Rohan Agrawal
0.1.0 (2015-02-14)
- updated verstion number
- Added install rule
- Initial Commit
- Contributors: Rohan Agrawal