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We are working now on the new version for Aerostack 4.0 (Auster distribution). We plan to finish this work in a few days.
[July 20, 2020] A new version of Aerostack (version 4.0) is planned to be released in approximately one week. Compared to the previous versions , it includes the following main features:
- New robot behaviors: MPC motion control, improved PID controllers, and new EKF localization.
- Common interprocess communication: A set of ROS topics for aerial robotics with standard ROS messages for interprocess communication.
- Meta-control: Flexible execution control system with meta-control.
- Improved GUI: Improved components for user interface with more robust operation.
- New example projects: New Aerostack projects that illustrate how to use the software framework.
- Agile installation: Agile installation of Aerostack using project installation, Docker and apt-get.
[March 5, 2020] We are very proud to announce that our group CVAR (Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics) from the “Universidad Politecnica de Madrid” won the third place of the Grand Challenge in the International Robotic Competition MBZIRC 2020 that took place in February 25, 2020. The Aerostack software framework was successfully used for building the system architecture of aerial robots that participated in the competition as it described in this publication.
Our group CVAR participated as the coordinator of SkyTeam, a combined team that also integrated members from Universidad Pablo Olavide and Poznan University of Technology. The group SkyTeam was in charge of Challenge 1 and Challenge 3. The group French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) was in charge of Challenge 2. Congratulations to all the members of these groups!
[July 30, 2019] We are pleased to announce the release of Aerostack Version 3.0 Distribution Sirocco. The development of this new version has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the project ROSIN. Compared to previous versions, it includes the following main features:
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Standard methods: Components of Aerostack have been updated to use standard ROS message types. Aerostack has been also updated to operate with ROS Melodic Morenia and Ubuntu 18.04.
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New license and improved portability: The software license of Aerostack has been changed to BSD-3. The installation method has also been improved using projects that install subsets of Aerostack packages.
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Improved efficiency: The performance efficiency and maintainability of the executive system has been improved with a more efficient design. The graphical user interface has been divided into separate more efficient and simpler ROS nodes.
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New capabilities for navigation and communication: New behaviors for positioning and navigation based on lidar sensors have been developed reusing existing ROS packages, and Aerostack has been extended to operate with Gazebo simulator (RotorS). New behaviors have been developed for communication between the robot and the operator and between the robot and other robots.
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Learning documentation: New test scenarios with increasing complexity have been developed. These scenarios have used to create new learning documentation to facilitate the use of Aerostack.
Contact: We thank and welcome any suggestion or comment about Aerostack. For any question or bug report you can read and/or write at the issues page. You can also contact the team support at the following address: aerostack.upm@gmail.com
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