[ros-users] Digital Camera 1394 in ROS?

[Blaise Gassend]

Hi Jack,

> OK, those files committed to camera_drivers_experimental/camera1394/src.

Thanks for writing that up, this looks great. I have created ticket
ros-pkg#3921 to remind myself to push this into a higher up package. It
will probably take me a while to get to it as I am going full speed on
wifi issues these days. The only thing that I'll probably change
slightly when I move it into a common location is to allow url_ to be
modified. That way it can be dynamically configurable. (I hadn't thought
about that when I wrote up the strawman API.)

> It uses camera_calibration_parsers for reading and writing YAML files.
> Some of those methods seem to behave strangely in cases where a file
> does not exist or is empty. I have not decided what to do about that,
> yet.

Ticketed as ros-pkg#3922

> I'll need to keep this initial implementation where it is for the
> present, because I want camera1394 to work with the boxturtle release
> to get more beta testing. If a future version moves to
> camera_calibration_parsers, I'll update camera1394 to use it in the
> next release.

Sounds good. You are CCed on ros-pkg#3321, so you'll know when I get to
this.

> I'd like to make this generally useful. There are things I don't know
> about ROS coding standards and practices. Feedback and suggestions
> would be helpful.

I had a quick look, and this looks great. There is quite a bit of
variation from person to person. We try not to get too uptight about
details of coding style.

Blaise