ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.10.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Support for higher resolution odometry (firmware v35+ required)
  * Tool to verify odometry consistency
  * Support for target velocity term in the PID (firmware v35+ required)
  * Firmware update script now supports local firmware files
  * Firmware update script can use different serial port
  * Support for reading motor controller version from I2C
  * Safer E-STOP behavior (MCB 5.0+)
  * Publishing the state of the estop switch
  * Improved documentation
  * Improvements to the testing scripts
  * Contributors: Alexander Sergeenko, David Crawley, Mark Johnston, Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sun, 10 Nov 2019 06:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.9.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Allow selecting what firmware version to download
  * Adding max motor forward and reverse speeds and max pwm settings all the way from ROS parameters to being pushed to the controller board.
  * Analyze information to create diagnostics statuses
  * Major update to test_motor_board.py that accepts greatly improved parameter read and set as well as ability to specify com port device to be used
  * Adds support for set of hw rev and for pre rev 5.0 estop threshold
  * Contributors: Mark Johnston, Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.8.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Added firmware loading tool
  * Added misc testing scripts
  * Don't die when communication not working, only print error
  * Use std mutex/atomic instead of boost
  * Reduce print level on integral/pid limits
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Tue, 01 Jan 2019 06:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.7.1-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * new pid params
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sat, 16 Jun 2018 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.7.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Add script to probe the robot for information
  * Add Serial Protocol Documentation
    Fixes #33 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/33>
  * Add ROS API documentation (#32 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/32>)
    * Add API documentation
    * Remove unused serial_loop_rate variable
  * Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sun, 15 Apr 2018 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.6.1-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Reset controller when time jumps (#31 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/31>)
    Reset the controller and zero commanded velocity an unexpected time change occurs (such as by NTP).  This prevents unexpected robot motion.
  * Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sun, 12 Nov 2017 06:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.6.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Publish battery voltage messages (#29 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/29>)
    Added battery status message calibrated on 4.4 board serial no 450
  * Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal, David Crawley

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.5.2-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Remove debug topics (#25 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/25>)
    * Remove debug topics
    * Remove tests of debug registers
  * Merge pull request #22 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/22> from UbiquityRobotics/suppresserrorsatstartup
    Supress some potentially confusing warnings
  * Increase error_threshold
  * Merge pull request #23 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/23> from UbiquityRobotics/fix_acceleration_limits
    Fix computaion of elapsed time so that it is +ve
  * Fix computaion of elapsed time so that it is +ve
  * Supress some potentially confusing warnings
  * Clean out serial loop (#20 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/20>)
    * Transmit the the same thread caller, not in serial thread
    * go back to debug on tranmissions
    * Use smarter waits and reads in reading thread
    * Get rid of serial loop rate
    * Reformat
  * Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sat, 06 May 2017 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.5.1-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Reduce flakey-ness of the tests
  * Try to get firmware version, throw after 10 tries
  * Code cleanup
  * Use fixed sized arrays (not vectors) where they make sense
  * Use a seperate shared_queue class
  * Performance improvements
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sat, 04 Mar 2017 06:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.5.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * **NOTE:** This version drops support for firmware versions before 24
  * Use new 8-byte serial protocol
  * Add support for using dynamic_reconfigure to change PID parameters
  * Add support for setting the deadman timer via a parameter
  * Add support for debug registers, do enable better firmware diagnostics
  * Add support for limit reached warnings from firmware
  * Improved testing, more coverage and cleaner tests
  * Have motor_node explicitly return an exit code
  * Reduce memory allocations caused by resizing vectors
  * Use size_t instead of int for iterating
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal, Jim Vaughan

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sun, 04 Sep 2016 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.4.1-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * add support for firmware version 19
  * add support for 0xDD (checksum) error response
  * Make variable name for rejected bytes 'rejected'
  * Reduce memcopy-ing
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sat, 09 Apr 2016 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.4.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Cleanup deps, have motor_node be linked to shared lib
  * Update Copyright Dates
  * Removed old motor_unit_test
  * Moved motor_message_test
  * Make the serial thread loop at the passed in value instead of always 1000
  * Add interruption point to Serial Thread
  * Comment out serial tests
  * Added motor_serial_tests
  * Always print firmware version
  * fix up code that checks a firmware version response
  * Using Async Spinner instead of roscontrol thread
  * more command grouping
  * reduced unnecessary output locking
    using bool method like tony did with input
  * reduce locking by grouping commands to send together
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Tue, 08 Mar 2016 06:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.3.2-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Many fixes for bad odometery, more robust serial protocol
  * Add code to speed up serial. Major improvements in latency to the motor board
  * Contributors: atp42

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sat, 28 Nov 2015 06:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.3.1-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * fixed install rules for Cmake
  * added license to test code
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Mon, 12 Oct 2015 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.3.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * Remove annoying debug print
  * Fix numerous PID issues. First, add velocity reporting. Second, fix 10x unit error between specified velocity and actual. Third, make PID parameter changes actually world.
  * actually calling the function now
  * added pid params (hopefully)
  * added more unit tests
  * added some more unit test coverage, b/c I spent half an hour on an avoidable wild goose chase
  * updated unit tests
  * renamed motor command to motor message
  * Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Rohan Agrawal
  * Updated package.xml with new dependencies, bumped version number
  * updated travis button
  * Merge refactoring branch into indigo-devel
  * cleaned up some stuff, and got odometery running
  * added odom, and changed loop rates
  * using the correct tics to radians, and now at 20hz
  * cleaned up travis file
  * forgot to remove bad include
  * moved control loop to seperate thread to make it work
  * converted branch to the indigo-devel code
  * added missing ubiquity_motor.cpp
  * changed logging from the output speeds to the input speeds
  * whoops, fotgot to remove typedef for chrono
  * removed boost_chrono dependency, less dependencies is better right
  * explictly apt-get boost-chrono
  * manually installing boost in travis
  * changed travis notfications for slack
  * Fix issue where serial data wouldn't print
    Using a pointer for the motors object in the Motor Serial class, this allows for the initalization to be in the constructer.
  * added slack integration to travis
  * add slack intergration to travis
  * working on making diff_drive_controller work
  * fixed boost expection error
  * Print ros_error on catch for better debugging
  * worked on serial thread loop
  * fix test
  * more exception handling in thread
  * added baud rate switch/case to prevent invalid bauds
  * basic serial thread working
  * change testsuite naming to ubiquity_motor_CLASS
  * added catkin_make to travis because build errors fixed
  * added mutexed add and get command functions
  * added test cases for invalid type/register
  * put header ifndef in motor_serial header
  * redid motor_serial header with boost threads and std::queues
  * added enum checking to getters and setters
  * added deserialize verification
  * started added comments to the code
  * removed unnessary imports
  * added incorrect checksum test case
  * added deserialize funtionality and test
  * added serialize and checksum functions
  * fix typo in travis file
  * changed travis config to run the tests
  * added tests for motor command class
  * Started adding unit tests
  * fixed enum scoping errors
  * fix wierd git problem
  * renamed source files to follow ROS standard practices
  * removed old files that we are not going to use
  * changed motor command class to use new serial protocol spec
  * testing build
  * Merge pull request #2 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/2> from jim-v/hydro
    Added child_frame_id to odom messages.
  * Added child_frame_id to odom messages.
  * Changed MotorDriver to MotorHardware
  * added missing dependencies to package.xml to fix build errors
  * Update README.md
  * added header for motor driver class
  * Merge pull request #1 <https://github.com/UbiquityRobotics/ubiquity_motor/issues/1> from jim-v/hydro
    Added covariance to the outgoing odom messages.
  * Added covariance to the outgoing odom messages.
  * removed old node files
  * added serial dependency to package.xml
  * Fixed build errors and removed Ubiquity prefix from classes
  * changed travis branch to refactoring
  * added serial reader thread and callback
  * added BSD license to crc8 files
  * added UbiquityMotorSerial class
  * created UbiquityMotorCommand class
  * add build status to README
  * changed node graph name
  * added travis configureation file
  * Contributors: Jim Vaughan, Kurt Christofferson, Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sun, 20 Sep 2015 05:00:00 -0000

ros-melodic-ubiquity-motor (0.1.0-1stretch) stretch; urgency=high

  * updated verstion number
  * Added install rule
  * Initial Commit
  * Contributors: Rohan Agrawal

 -- Rohan Agrawal <rohan@aleopile.com>  Sat, 14 Feb 2015 06:00:00 -0000


