iRobot® Create® 3 Release G.5.1

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This release is running ROS 2 Galactic with the following interface library versions:

• irobot_create_msgs - 1.2.4
• cyclonedds - 0.8.1
• Fast-DDS - 2.3.3

Release Overview

For iRobot® Education Bluetooth¹ users, this is a bugfix release. For ROS 2² users, this is primarily a feature release. See below for details.

Changelog (from G.4.5)

ROS 2

• Publications
  • Add /cliff_intensity topic (#320)
  • Add tf frame for the IMU (called imu), to which the /imu topic is now connected
• Middleware
  • Allow the use of ; characters in Fast-DDS Discovery Server configuration (#400)
  • Beta: Allow user to provide an XML configuration file for their preferred middleware (#407)

Core Robot

• Webserver / OS
  • Beta: Allow user full control to edit ntp.conf (#333)
  • Remove erroneous log messages about the robot's lost Wi-Fi connection when it had never been connected in the first place

iRobot® Education Bluetooth protocol mode

• Fix device number for stall event to match protocol document (#410)

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