TRAC-IK now released as ROS Debian binaries

[Patrick Beeson]

Due to popular demand by the MoveIt! community, TRAC-IK has been added to the ROS Indigo and Jade Debian binaries released via the ROS apt repository.  Currently, the binaries are in the Shadow Repository until they are manually moved over to the standard ROS repo.  Please feel free to check out, test, and notify me of success or issues.  Either use the TRAC-IK library directly (drop-in replacement of KDL's CartToJnt() function) or as a MoveIt! plugin (many people report improved MoveIt! planning success using TRAC-IK over the default KDL solver).  You can get all relevant packages by installing the meta package:

sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-trac-ik

Note: I am working on a kinetic release; however, with MoveIt! currently not released for Kinetic, the MoveIt! plugin will obviously not be included.

Patrick Beeson
Principal Investigator/Senior Scientist
TRACLabs Inc.

[Dave Coleman]

Great work Patrick, thanks!

- dave