AICA Core v5.1.0

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Version 5.1.0 is a minor update to AICA Core that introduces several new features and improvements to AICA Studio.

When upgrading to version 5.1.0, users are now required to create scoped access profiles before using AICA Studio; this is facilitated by a redesigned login flow. It is recommended to create a new system configuration for v5.1.0 rather than upgrading an existing configuration from v5.0.1 or earlier.

AICA Studio

Version 5.1.0 introduces several new features and improvements to AICA Studio.

The application editor now supports undo and redo actions alongside the ability to tag and restore persistent versions. Managing applications becomes easier with custom labels and better organization in the redesigned application manager. The editor has improved keyboard shortcuts which are listed in the updated Help page.

The 2D data charts have been overhauled for more visual fidelity and interactivity, allowing users to zoom and pan in time and data dimensions. The 3D scene has configurable lighting controls for better visualization of assets.

When using Studio from the latest versions of AICA Launcher, Launcher-specific controls are embedded directly in the Studio navigation bar instead of needing a separate overlay icon. Additionally, controls to download files and open external links are now supported even when using Studio in Launcher.

This version makes some changes to API scopes and user profiles. References to AICA Studio "users" (and the "User" page) have been renamed to "profiles" (and "Profile") accordingly. The former admin scope has been split into the users and cloud-config scopes, and the privileged default super-admin profile now can only manage profiles from a restricted login screen. This means users of a new configuration with no existing profiles will need to first create a new profile with appropriate scopes before they can access Studio. The previous Settings tab which was visible for profiles with the admin scope has been removed in this version, and will be re-introduced as a dedicated Cloud Config setting for the cloud-config scopes in a future release.

Many additional improvements and fixes have been made to the control, interactivity, visualization, and user feedback across the editor and Studio.

Features

• Add undo redo functionality
• Implement labels for applications
• Add labels section to left panel
• Create mini-panels for labels
• Add anchor support to mini-panel for left/right positioning
• Add launcher compatibility layer
• Integrate the Launcher menu into the navbar
• Re-design the 2D live tab section in the right panel
• Improve 2D plots with ECharts, adaptive downsampling, and fixed ranges
• Adjust 3D scene lighting using a slider
• Add a new section to the help page displaying available keyboard shortcuts
• Add keyboard shortcuts for undo redo
• Enable component deletion with the delete key in addition to the backspace key
• Add toast feedback for the save shortcut
• Redesign the application manager
• Refactor application manager options
• Add table sorting options by last saved date or alphabetically
• Implement multi-select delete for applications in the application manager
• Integrate labels into application manager
• Integrate version tags in left panel
• Update delete confirmation modal
• Add ability to restore a previous application version
• Add mini-panel for managing versions
• Implement renaming and deleting application versions
• New login flow for super-admin
• Filter scopes by current scopes on profile creation or editing
• Group switch controller button events by hardware

Fixes

• Parameter checkbox in the scrollable settings panel causes the entire page to scroll upwards
• Function cannot be given ref console error
• Sequence title truncation
• Prevent adding new components when application is running
• Disable event handle selection and service payload in the graph visualizer
• Reloading when 3D panel is rendered in the right panel
• Improve dots background rendering when zooming out
• Arrest upwards wandering trigger buttons on graph generation
• Refactor 3D settings view and remove joint position recorder when not needed
• Adjust height of minipanel for add controllers
• Move add controllers button above controllers
• Toggle topic dropdown when clicking on the choose topic button
• Adjust minipanel width for add controllers
• Auto-scroll behavior in logs tab
• Define a key for component RenderParameter to update correctly
• Mini-panel unusable when located very low in the side panel
• Introduce light intensity for URDF viewer
• Add missing service call cleanup when deleting controllers
• Case-sensitive check for URDF mesh extension
• Remove inherited asset lights that causes overexposed lighting in 3D scene
• Application manager buttons flickering
• Mini-panel not receiving live frame updates due to static props
• Interaction context causing YAML editor to be no longer editable
• Clear the error panel in hardware interface settings when resetting a URDF
• Correctly label hardware parameters when they are set to their default value

API

This updates makes a significant change to API scopes by limiting the functionality of the super-admin profile and splitting the former admin scope into users and cloud-config scopes. It also fixes an edge case in the migration of legacy component descriptions that include services with empty but non-null payload formats.

Event Engine

In the core engine, this update fixes an issue with predicates incorrectly persisting between unloading and loading the same node in a running application, while also improving exception handling during Python component construction.

Core hardware collection

A small fix in this update ensures the generic mock interface doesn't keep moving in the absence of a command.