Hidy ho, Your Friendly Neighborhood Navigator here to let you know that we’ve just released Nav2 for Jazzy!
Since Iron, we’ve made a TON of great progress:
- New Autodocking server and integration (shown below)
- Upgrade to BT.CPP v4 from v3
- Upgrade to GZ Harmonic from Gazebo Classic
- Added option for TwistStamped publication throughput the stack instead of Twist (to be made default in K-Turtle)
- Velocity-scheduling collision monitor polygons for safety-lidar-like behavior
- Option for soft-realtime control pipeline
- Huge MPPI performance optimizations, 45%! And more critics! And acceleration constraints!
- GPS Waypoint Following
- Several new tutorials
- And Much More!
You can see a full list of notable updates since Iron in Iron to Jazzy — Nav2 1.0.0 documentation
This is a big release and thank you to all of our now 260+ contributors to Nav2 to continuing to make this project a success! If you’re interested in getting involved, feel free to comment below, ping me on Discourse or Slack! If you’re a company using Nav2 in your product or service, consider reaching out at info@opennav.org to sponsor the project!
Happy Navigating!
Steve