robot_model 0.4.0 released

I am announcing the release of the robot_model.0.4.0. stack. Since the last release, we've worked hard to review the API and documentation of all packages in this stack. This resulted in a lot of extra documentation and tutorials, and some minor API changes in the kdl parser.

Changes

• API and Doc review: all packages in the robot_model stack have been through our API and Documentation review process.
  • Kdl parser
  • Deprecated xml_parser
  • Deprecated treeFromRobotModel method (replaced by treeFromUrdf). The deprecated functionality will be removed in the next release cycle.
  • URDF
  • Updated XML format documentation
  • New beginner tutorials to create and parse urdf files
  • Add command line tool to verify urdf file

Download

• http://www.ros.org/download/stacks/robot_model/robot_model-0.4.0.tar.bz2