CHANGELOG

Changelog for package rosbot_hardware_interfaces

1.0.0 (2026-04-21)

  • New firmware with microros namespace pre-communication support (#168) - New firmware (v1.0.0-jazzy) for ROSbot 3 and ROSbot XL enabling namespace configuration via serial pre-communication before microros agent starts - `configure_robot` script — serial pre-communication node: sends namespace to MCU over FTDI/UART, verifies firmware version, waits for ACK - Separated bringup — bringup.yaml dispatches to rosbot.yaml / rosbot_xl.yaml; ROSbot XL gets dedicated nodes: battery_alert, led_strip_car_wave - `tf_namespace_bridge` — bridges namespaced /tf to global /tf and /tf_static - `microros_mode` arg — allows overriding default communication mode (serial/udp) - Controller tuning: updated ICR, wheel params and acceleration limits for both robots - Renamed FirmwareFlasherUSB/UART → McuManagerFTDI/UART with added reset_mcu() - battery_alert: switched from aplay to paplay with configurable audio_device ROS parameter (snap-friendly via audio-playback interface); pulseaudio-utils dep commented pending [ros/rosdistro#50811](https://github.com/ros/rosdistro/pull/50811) - Fixed: argparse required=True ignoring os.getenv() default in configure_robot and flash_firmware - Fixed: namespace validation before serial write in configure_robot - Fixed: missing hasattr(e, “stderr”) guard in mcu_manager_uart - Fixed: deprecated on_init(HardwareInfo&) → on_init(HardwareComponentInterfaceParams&) in rosbot_hardware_interfaces

  • Add missing changelog descriptions for past releases (#167) * Remove automatic bump * Add missing changelog descriptions for past releases

  • Contributors: Rafal Gorecki

0.18.8 (2026-03-02)

  • Remove conditional dependencies

  • Migrate rest of the ament_python pkg to ament_cmake

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.7 (2026-02-27)

  • Update public action version in workflow

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.6 (2026-02-27)

  • Unnecesary auto release

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.5 (2026-02-27)

  • prepare for apt release: execute catkin_generate_changelog manually

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.4 (2026-02-27)

  • rosbot_bringup: migrate ament_python pkg to ament_cmake package

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.3 (2026-02-26)

  • Use apt instead pip dependencies (python3-pyftdi-pip to python3-ftdi)

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.2 (2026-02-26)

  • Migrate ROS2 launch from Python to YAML

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.1 (2025-12-10)

  • Exceed arm_activate timeout

  • Add Husarion packages of: open_manipulator_description, open_manipulator_joy, open_manipulator_moveit

  • Use fixed mecanum controller

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki

0.18.0 (2025-12-08)

  • Add rosbot_hardware_interfaces into rosbot_ros

  • Fix: wrong frame_id in simulated sensors when namespace is used

  • Enable color logs

  • Add stm32flasher dependency

  • Reduce number of controller config files

  • One spawner for all controllers (reduce number of spawn node)

  • Add activate_arm arg

  • Add a script to activate/deactivate the arm

  • Rename topic: imu_broadcaster/imu to imu/data

  • Contributors: rafal-gorecki