Hey Pat,
Is there any documentation for your node? I've just started looking at
motion capture stuff and yours was the only related node I found. I'd be
interested to see if there was some common data structures that can be used
for other formats as well.
-David!!

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Patrick Bouffard <
bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Nice work. I also wrote a VICON package for ROS:
> https://github.com/pbouffard/vicon_mocap
>
> I was naturally curious and took a quick look at your code. It looks
> like one difference is that I'm using the DataStream API from VICON,
> while it looks like you are using the sockets directly. Is that for
> performance reasons? I guess it also has the advantage of not having a
> dependency on the SDK. I'm curious--is there some documentation
> available on the protocol used?
>
> Also, it looks like in your node a model file must be provided--what
> type of file is this, is it a .vsk file? In our use case we are only
> interested in the rigid body pose of a single segment on one subject
> so we just ask the API for those by name. I guess your solution is a
> bit more general as it seems it provides all the VICON data for all
> subjects down to the marker level.
>
> Anyway, always nice to see how others are solving a similar problem.
> I'd of course be open to working together if that makes sense, though
> I suspect our respective implementations do what we each need them to
> do already.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat
>
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Chris Burbridge <cburbridge@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here at the Univeristy of Ulster Intelligent Systems Research Centre we
> > have been gradually learning to use ROS, having previously used
> Player/Stage
> > extensively.
> >
> > We are now in the process of creating a repository in which we hope to
> place
> > some of our software. To begin with, we have added our Vicon tracking
> system
> > interface library, with a ROS interface using tf. Shortly we will add
> more.
>
> > The repository can be found here:
> >
> > https://github.com/cburbridge/uuisrc-ros-pkg
> >
> > It would be great if our repository could be added to the ros wiki.
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Chris Burbridge
> >
> > Research Associate,
> > University of Ulster ISRC
> >
> >
> >
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