[robocup-worldwide] Release of the Carologistics 2016 Software

[Tim Niemueller]

Dear fellow RoboCupers.

We are pleased to announce the immediate release of our full software
stack used to participate (and win) in the RoboCup Logistics League in
2016. It is based on the recent tenth anniversary stable release of 
Fawkes 1.0.1 [1]. It includes, for example, direct communication with 
the Robotino for time-stamped and faster data access. It also contains 
many improvements to the basic skills of the robot, tooling, and 
simulation integration.

This release was primarily made possible by the Carologistics [2] and
AllemaniACs [3] RoboCup teams. You can find videos of introductory 
presentations from the RCLL Winter School 2015 on [4].

We invite teams to take a look and adopt Fawkes full or in part as their
software platform. All parts are Open Source software and the vast
majority of components are developed in public. We welcome contributions 
from anyone and hope to help newcomer teams to get a
better start. In combination with the publicly developed simulation, it 
should be far easier to perform better than ever before.

This release will be the foundation for the upcoming ICAPS Planning 
Competition for Logistics Robots in Simulation [5], which will be held 
for the first time this year in June and is based on the scenario of the 
RoboCup Logistics League.

The release can be found at
    https://www.fawkesrobotics.org/p/rcll2016-release

Regards from Aachen,
   Tim Niemueller

[1] https://www.fawkesrobotics.org
[2] https://www.carologistics.org
[3] https://robocup.rwth-aachen.de
[4] https://www.carologistics.org/winter-school-2015
[5] http://www.robocup-logistics.org/sim-comp

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