The Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit

Hi all, 

From today:

1) There is a new FAQ section, which will be populated with the most common doubts that recurrently appear in the forum or in mails.

2) There is a a new Ubuntu PPA repository for CPUs that do not support the latest instruction sets, aimed at compatibility with embedded boards typically installed within mobile robots.

Cheers,
Jose Luis

Dear MRPT users, 

I'm glad to let you know about the release today of MRPT 0.9.5, which comes with these important changes:

SITUATION: 

After updating the SVN repository of MRPT to revision 2651 (or newer) you may have errors like these:

svn: Failed to add file 'samples/captureVideoFFmpeg/CMakeLists.txt': an unversioned file of the same name already exists
(or any other:)
svn: Failed to add file 'samples/.../CMakeLists.txt': an unversioned file of the same name already exists

If never built MRPT with BUILD_EXAMPLES=ON this error won't affect you.

From today, anyone can write Latex equations in the MRPT forums, thanks to the Mathjax library. It's as easy as writing your Latex formulas enclosed within (remove the spaces between the backslash and the square brackets):

\ [  Your Latex code \ ]

For example:

\ [  \int_0^x \sin^2(z) dz = \frac{\partial F(x)}{\partial x} \ ]

renders as:

I hope you find it useful!

It's been a while since the last stable release, so this new version comes with tons of changes. The most important are:

The program GridmapNavSimul has been around in MRPT for years, but its usage was never properly described... until now. In its application page you can now find a video tutorial, hopefully making it easy for everyone to generate a synthetic dataset with a 2D laser scanner and odometry for an arbitrary environment (for example, drawn by hand).

Hi all, The next stable release of MRPT is out available for download, and it comes with some important new features:

I'm glad to announce that MRPT has just finished moving from our "home-made" Linear Algebra classes to the great Eigen library. The changes are now only in SVN HEAD, and the feature will appear in the next stable release 0.9.3 (see changelog).

I'm glad to announce the release of MRPT 0.9.2, which comes with dozens of new features and bugfixes (see the CHANGELOG).

The most important changes are:
- Basic support for Graph-SLAM. Among others, see mrpt::poses::CNetworkOfPoses, the new namespace mrpt::graphslam and the program graph-slam
- First working version of Sparse Bundle-Adjustment (see mrpt::vision::bundle_adj_full).
- New hardware supported: Phidget kits & Fiber Optic Gyro KVH DSP3000 (both contributed by Adrien Barral, Robopec).

The MRPT book has been updated with two new chapters:

• Chapter 5: Description of existing MRPT libraries.
• Chapter 11: Smart pointers

The chapter on smart pointers will be specially interesting to those beginning with MRPT, since there are a number of subtle concepts that should be fully understood for an efficient usage of those objects.