[robocup-humanoid] ROS-based Software Framework for the NimbRo-OP Humanoid Open Platform

[Oskar von Stryk]

Dear Sven,

Thanks you very much to you and all contributors for making
this great achievement available to the scientific community!

Hopefully many teams will be using it to accelerate their development
of humanoid robots and enter the humanoid league
and also contribute to the further development.

Kind regards,
Oskar

On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Sven Behnke wrote:

> Dear Humanoid League Teams,
>
> team NimbRo is pleased to announce the release of a ROS-based software 
> framework for the NimbRo-OP humanoid open platform.
>
> ROS (Robot Operating System) is a popular middleware for developing robot 
> application software that is used by many research groups.
>
> Our release provides functionality for hardware abstraction, visual 
> perception, and behavior generation.
> We used the framework to implement basic soccer skills, like omnidirectional 
> walking, kicking, and getting up
> which have been demonstrated by the NimbRo-OP in the Humanoid TeenSize 
> competition at RoboCup 2013.
>
> The software is available here:
> https://github.com/NimbRo/nimbro-op-ros
>
> The framework is documented in the following paper:
>
> Philipp Allgeuer, Max Schwarz, Julio Pastrana, Sebastian Schueller, Marcell 
> Missura and Sven Behnke:
> "A ROS-based Software Framework for the NimbRo-OP Humanoid Open Platform"
> In Proceedings of 8th Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots, IEEE-RAS 
> International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Atlanta, October 2013.
> http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/papers/HSR13_Allgeuer_ROS_NimbRo-OP.pdf
>
> Further information on the NimbRo-OP robot is available here:
> http://www.nimbro.net/OP
>
> Due to the generic nature of our software, it should be easy to apply the 
> software framework to similar humanoid soccer robots such as the DARwIn-OP.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sven Behnke.
> http://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/behnke
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