iDynTree 0.10.0

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iDynTree 0.10.0 was released today and is now available for download at: https://github.com/robotology/idyntree/releases/. This release is a new feature release and introduces several new features since iDynTree 0.8 .

iDynTree 0.10.0 Release Notes

Important Changes

• Since 0.10 release, iDynTree uses C++14 in its headers, and requires GCC >= 5 and Visual Studio >= 2015
  to compile.
• Similar to the YARP policy, any new version of iDynTree will have a consecutive minor version number.
  Development version (the one contained in the devel branch before release will be denoted with a
  patch version number greater than 100. The next minor release of iDynTree will be 0.11 .

core

• Added the iDynTree::Span class (Add Span class idyntree#434), modeled after
  the C++20's std::span ( http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/span ). This class can be used to write
  methods and functions that access a contiguous sequence of objects in memory with a known length.
  This is extremly useful to make sure that iDynTree classes are easy to use regardless of which
  vector type the downstream code is using, for example if it is one of std::vector<double>,
  Eigen::VectorXd or yarp::sig::Vector .

inverse-kinematics

• Frame Constraints can now be enabled and disabled dynamically ( Add support for enabling and disabling constraints dynamically in InverseKinematics idyntree#389 ).

estimation

• Addition of iDynTree::SchmittTrigger, iDynTree::ContactStateMachine and iDynTree::BipedFootContactClassifier classes for performing contact state detection using Schmitt trigger based thresholding and biped foot contact classification based on an alternate contact switching pattern reasoning over contact makes used for getting primary foot in contact
  (Adding Schmitt Trigger based contact state detection for Contact Swit… idyntree#410 , [contact switching] Added setPrimaryFoot method and switch with contact makes idyntree#411 ).
• Addition of iDynTree::GravityCompensationHelpers class for computing gravity compensation torques using accelerometer measurements ([GravComp] Porting GravityCompensationHelper class from codyco-modules idyntree#438)

optimalcontrol

• Initial improvement of the optimal control library ( Feature/oc implementation idyntree#442 ). See the inline documentation of the classes for more details, or open an issue
  ( https://github.com/robotology/idyntree/issues/new ) requesting documentation on some specific aspects of the optimal control library.

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Many thanks to all the contributors of this iDynTree release: @S-Dafarra @prashanthr05 @francesco-romano @barbalberto @nunoguedelha @hu-yue @pattacini @lucaTagliapietra @jeljaik @diegoferigo !