From 320f451fcec1afdc5eededaa3e1cdbcd120c2ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Maroney Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 16:24:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Adding README.txt explaining barrett-ros-pkg and installation instructions. --- README.txt | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.txt diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edd5bda --- /dev/null +++ b/README.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +barrett-ros-pkg -- README +Barrett Technology Inc. +2012-05-11 + +Barrett Technology's ROS repository is an abstraction of Libbarrett. Libbarrett +is a real-time controls library written in C++ that runs Barrett Technology's +products, including the WAM Arm and the BH8-280 BarrettHand. + +Our ROS repository requires an installed version of Libbarrett. To check out +the latest version of Libbarrett: + +svn http://web.barrett.com/svn/libbarrett/tags/libbarrett-1.0.0rc1 + +Please view the README.txt file within Libbarrett for installation instructions. + +The wam_robot stack is designed to be run on a WAM PC-104 or external control +PC. + +The wam_common stack is designed as the interface to communicate with the +functionality exposed by the wam_node. + +The wam_sim stack is in development and should be released shortly. + +Please contact us with any functionality or feature requests. We appreciate +contributions and collaborations. + +Libbarrett is free software: you can redistribute it and/or +modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the +Free Software Foundation. + +Contact us at: +support@barrett.com +http://www.barrett.com/ ++1-617-252-9000 + +Barrett Technology +625 Mount Auburn Street +Cambridge, MA 02138 +USA -- 2.12.0