[ros-users] ROS Phase Space Drivers

[Vijay Pradeep]

Hi Adam,

*Short Answer:* The driver definitely did work, and we used it a lot here at
Willow Garage for a variety of tests and experiments.  But, we haven't had
to resources to maintain or improve it.

The phasespace driver is a very thin ROS wrapper around the existing
PhaseSpace API.  Where did you copy the package from (url, revision, etc)?
It actually links in a closed source .so from PhaseSpace, which currently
will only work on 32-bit machines.  It also required some older versions of
some standard libraries, which I believe might not come with the base Ubuntu
install anymore.  The ROS phasespace driver also only runs in slave mode,
which means that you have to use a tool like the phasespace master GUI to
configure and start the system, before starting the ROS phasespace driver.
This can become inconvenient when what you want to something like "roslaunch
launch_my_robot_with_phasespace.launch".

I definitely think that writing a PhaseSpace driver that can run in Master
mode would be a great addition to the ROS community.  At this point however,
we don't have the resources to support it in-house.

Vijay

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Adam Stambler <adasta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Willow Garage has some experimental Phase Space motion capture drivers
> listed on the wiki, but  its drivers have been removed from the latest svn
> revisions.  I have pulled them out of the history, but before I start using
> them I was wondering why they were removed.  Did Willow simply stop using
> their phase space cameras ? Are there any problems that I should be aware
> of?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Adam Stambler
>
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