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ROS-Industrial Motoman support (http://wiki.ros.org/motoman)
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Dual arm capability release plan #47

Closed shaun-edwards closed 7 years ago

shaun-edwards commented 10 years ago

PR #42 & #43 add dual arm control capability to the Motoman packages.

PR #43 contains all changes required for the motoplus/inform (controller side) software PR #42 contains all changes required for the ROS (pc) software

Before rolling out this capability into the Hydro release, careful consideration must be given to how it could affect the current installations. For example, the controller side software must be matched with appropriate launch parameters on the ROS side (launch parameters enable the ROS side to be backwards compatible). If this is not done correctly, the system could fail to operate after a debian upgrade (with no warning to the user). To address this, a two step release is planned.

The first release, an upgrade to Hydro, will support both controller side server software versions.

The second release, an Indigo release (~3 months), will only support v1.2 controller side software.

gavanderhoorn commented 7 years ago

This was handled with the introduction of the version0 parameter, that was later removed in #89.

Outstanding issues should be reported in new bug reports.