Diff Drive Controller

Controller for a differential drive mobile base.

Detailed user documentation can be found in the controller’s ROS wiki page.

Changelog for package diff_drive_controller

0.17.3 (2023-01-31)

0.17.2 (2021-01-20)

0.17.1 (2020-12-05)

0.17.0 (2020-05-12)

0.16.1 (2020-04-27)

0.16.0 (2020-04-16)

• Fix warning dynamic_reconfigure
• Bump CMake version to prevent CMP0048
• Add missing header guards
• Replace header guard with #pragma once
• Prefix every xacro tag with 'xacro:'
• Modernize xacro
  • Remove '--inorder'
  • Use 'xacro' over 'xacro.py'
• switch implementation of read and write methods of Diffbot class
• Refactor nan test EXPECT_NE(x, bool) -> EXPECT_TRUE/FALSE(x) EXPECT_EQ(x, double) -> EXPECT_DOUBLE_EQ(x, double)
  • clang default reformat
• Check for nan cmd_vel
• Contributors: Anas Abou Allaban, Bence Magyar, Franz, Matt Reynolds, Raffaello Bonghi

0.15.1 (2020-03-09)

• Use nullptr
• add missing pluginlib deps.
• Update null link pointer error message
• Revert cmake include catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS as system
• Use C++11 [std::this_thread::sleep_for]{.title-ref}.
• Contributors: Bence Magyar, Enrique Fernandez Perdomo, Matt Reynolds, Sean Yen

0.15.0 (2019-03-26)

• Default all controller builds to C++14
• boost::chrono -> std::chrono
• boost::assign -> C++ initializer list
• boost::shared_ptr -> std::shared_ptr
• Using left/right multiplies for desired vel
• diff-drive publish joint trajectory controller state
• fix install destination for libraries (#403)
• Contributors: Bence Magyar, Gennaro Raiola, James Xu, Jeremie Deray, Jordan Palacios

0.14.3 (2019-02-09)

• use operators instead of aliases
• Fix typo descripion -> description
• Contributors: Daniel Ingram, James Xu

0.14.2 (2018-10-23)

0.14.1 (2018-06-26)

• Added 'multiplier' in DynamicParams ostream and changed boolean printing to 'enabled/disabled'
• isPublishngCmdVelOut to check getNumPublisheres until timeout
• Contributors: Kei Okada, Martin Ganeff

0.14.0 (2018-04-27)

• add dynamic_reconf to diff_drive_controller
• migrate to new pluginlib headers
• per wheel radius multiplier
• fix xacro macro warning
• [DiffDrive] Fix time-sensitive tests of diff_drive_controller
• separate include_directories as SYSTEM to avoid unrelated compilation warnings
• Contributors: Jeremie Deray, Mathias Lüdtke

0.13.2 (2017-12-23)

0.13.1 (2017-11-06)

0.13.0 (2017-08-10)

• Add test for allow_multiple_cmd_vel_publishers param
• add check for multiple publishers on cmd_vel
• Added tests for the odom_frame_id parameter.
• Parameterized diff_drive_controller's odom_frame_id
• Publish executed velocity if publish_cmd
• refactor to remove code duplication
• fixup pointer type for new convention
• Allow diff_drive_controller to use spheres as well as cylinders for wheel collision geometry. Cylinders are not well behaved on Gazebo/ODE heightfields, using spheres works around the issue.
• Contributors: Bence Magyar, Eric Tappan, Jeremie Deray, Karsten Knese, Tully Foote, mallanmba, tappan-at-git

0.12.3 (2017-04-23)

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