New Capabilities in MoveIt! - the Cartesian Path Planner Plugin
Risto Kojcev, a joint PhD student between the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and MicroBio Robotics Institute at the Italian Institute of Technology, in Pisa Italy participated in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) directed by the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) and ROS-Industrial (ROS-I) Consortium. His project (under the mentorship of Shaun Edwards at SwRI) was the development of a new Cartesian Path Planner Plug-In for MoveIt!. You can read all about his project on the ROS-I blog post and watch the movie below for more details.