AICA Core v5.0.1

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Version 5.0.1 is a patch following the main Enduring Eiger release that includes some small bugfixes and several minor
improvements to Studio behavior while preparing the backend for the next round of features in future releases.

AICA Studio

This version of Studio contains several post-release fixes and improvements before the introduction of new features in
the next minor release.

• Implement auto-scroll in the settings view for selected controllers
• Disable saving applications where the code is not in sync with the graph
• Persist camera controls with scene light adjustment
• Fix admin users are not allowed to change their password
• Persist unsaved name and description
• Enable show all during runtime
• Indicate internal parameters more clearly in the Help page
• Update mini-panel preview and clear URDF error on hardware switch
• Handle edge case for hardware settings with unknown URDF
• Fix automatic closing of component menu
• Reload parameters in the settings view when switching components with duplicated parameter names
• Add keyboard shortcuts to application
• Fix save button shrinking when disabled
• Group switch controller button events by hardware
• Disable moving an undefined sequence step

API

This version of the core API makes significant fixes following the last major release and prepares several new features.

The stability, error handling and logging of the API server and database interactions have been improved. The API schema has been extended with additional endpoints for managing custom components, application and hardware versions, hardware assets, and labels. These endpoints are not yet implemented in AICA Studio but will be fully supported in future versions.

Fixes

• Pipe Python component logs directly to stdout/err
• Improve authentication errors
• Minor post-release fixes

Features

• Use smart link to docs in OpenAPI schema
• Add new API to support custom components in the user database
• Support labels for applications, hardware and custom components
• Add a super-admin tag for easier identification
• Prepare versioning for user applications and hardware (schema-only)
• Support custom 3D assets associated with user hardware
• Improve database concurrency

Event Engine

This patch includes two minor post-release fixes to the Event Engine.

• Fix parameter value parsing from YAML for certain API events
• Properly check if a component is already loaded before attempting to load it again

Core collection

The initialization of blending factors and wording of some descriptions in the Joint Trajectory Controller have been revised in this patch.

• Fix blending factor initialization for full factor vectors in the JTC
• Update JTC description