1.1.5 (2010-06-25)

• urdf

  • Deprecate parsing of joints that are not attached to any links. This is not supported by the URDF spec, but the parser used to allow this. <<Ticket(wg-ros-pkg 4448)>>

  • Fix bug that allowed parent link of a joint to be unspecified. The parser used to automatically add missing parent links to the tree, but this is not valid according to the URDF spec. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4198)>>

  • Default axis field of joint should be (1,0,0) instead of (0,0,0). <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4200)>>

  • InitParam() searches for parameter to fix namespaced use

• kdl_parser

  • treeFromParam() calls through to urdf::initParam()

• robot_state_publisher

  • Add regression tests for cases with 1, 2 links in urdf, with and without fixed joints.

  • Fix bug where 2-link urdf is not accepted <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4042)>> <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4185)>>

  • Fix for when tree has only fixed joints: publish state to tf without expecting empy joint state messages. <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4132)>>

1.1.4 (2010-06-03)

• collada_urdf

  • URDF visual origin transform now applied to COLLADA node
  • URDF mimic joints exported

  • <<Ticket(ros-pkg 4116)>> swap rotation/translation.

• assimp: Upgraded to 1.1.700 for better COLLADA support

1.1.3 (2010-05-12)

• robot_state_publisher:

  • Changed tests to use new indexed bag files

1.1.2 (2010-04-30)

• robot_state_publisher

  • use new tf broadcaster with vectors <<Ticket(ros-pkg 3955)>>

• collada_urdf

  • updated API to support loading from strings, files and XML document objects
  • writes creation date to COLLADA
  • improved error handling
  • added unit tests

1.1.1 (2010-04-14)

• Merged changes from 1.0.2 release

• collada_urdf

  • new package for converting from URDF to COLLADA models

• colladadom

  • new package for COLLADA DOM (a C++ API for reading/writing COLLADA files)

• urdf

  • Support reading urdf from parameter server

<<Ticket(ros-pkg 3355)>>

1.1.0 (2010-02-26)

• Branched from 1.0.1 release

• assimp

  • adding assimp