[ros-users] camera1394 and swissranger

[Dejan Pangercic]

Hi all,
> No worries. :) I was surprised that my colleagues from TUM have not mentioned that earlier, as the sensors are still
> being used as far as I know.
Sorry for the late reply. We indeed have SR3K device but it is _not_
really in use anymore.
I'll test it with the new driver as soon as I manage to dig it out of
the limbo:-).

D.

> Do you still want to proceed with modifying the driver to produce both PointCloud and PointCloud2 messages? I've started
> writing tutorials for PCL and basically doing something like a planar segmentation on PointCloud2 will be a single line
> command. You could then provide this as a demo for the SwissRanger driver on its wiki page, because let's face it, ths
> SR is probably going to do give you its best data from planar surfaces rather than anything else :)
>
> Cheers,
> Radu.
>
> Patrick Beeson wrote:
>> Sorry for the confusion.  I assumed that Mesa's libusb only handled
>> their older devices, and that the new libmesasr was created for the 4000
>> release.
>>
>> Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:
>>> Great work Patrick! Thanks.
>>>
>>> Btw, the swissranger in the TUM repository _was_ already handling both
>>> SR3k and SR4k, as we had both sensors there. If it didn't properly,
>>> someone must have introduced a bug somewhere. I remember Morgan sent
>>> me some patches but due to me moving overseas, I never had time to
>>> check them in.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Radu.
>>>
>>> Patrick Beeson wrote:
>>>> I have added a new sr4k package to the camera_drivers_experimental
>>>> stack.  This extends the swissranger package in the tum repository to
>>>> handle the newer Mesa Imaging libraries, and supports both SR3000 and
>>>> SR4000 devices.
>>>>
>>>> I do not have an SR3K device, so I could only test with an SR4K, but
>>>> the API is the same for both (an early calls tells the Mesa libraries
>>>> which device you want to talk to and differences are handles at the
>>>> Mesa library level).
>>>>
>>>> I have not yet included a standalone viewer, but users can view the
>>>> output in rviz.  The current frame id is the node name (defaults to
>>>> /sr4k).  The user can view Image and PointCloud types.  There are 3
>>>> 2D images, distance, intensity, and confidence.
>>>>
>>>> Patrick Beeson
>>>>
>>>
>
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