1. Introduction

Player was originally developed by Brian Gerkey and Kasper Støy; the Stage simulator interface was originally written by Richard T. Vaughan and Andrew Howard. Gazebo and its Player interface were written by Nate Koenig and Andrew Howard. Now a part of the larger Player/Stage project, Player's development is administered by Brian Gerkey, Andrew Howard, and Richard T. Vaughan.

Player has historically been developed primarily at the Robotics Research Lab of the University of Southern California, but the current state of Player is the result of contributions from a great many developers and users in unversities, companies, and government labs around the world. For a list of significant contributors, see:
http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/credits.html
For a list of known users, see:
http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/users/users.html

We have tried to make this documentation as complete as possible. Hopefully there is sufficient information here for you to use Player and the provided clients as well as write your clients in your language of choice.

What do you like? What do you hate? How do you use it? Questions and comments regarding Player should be directed to our mailing lists:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=42445
and bug / feature request tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=42445