[ros-users] ar_pose with USB camera

Eric Perko wisesage5001 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 17:50:36 UTC 2010


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Bill Morris <morris at ee.ccny.cuny.edu>wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 13:33 +0100, Steven Bellens wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I had this set-up working before, but can't remember what I did
> > different. Either I'm missing something or one of the packages has
> > changed.
> > >From the ar_pose wiki:
> >
> > "Currently the ar_pose package requires calibration information from a
> > camera_info topic. If there is no camera_info topic the marker pose
> > estimation will not start."
> >
> > Further on the option is given to try the package with the usb_cam
> > driver: http://www.ros.org/wiki/usb_cam
> >
> > Which however, does not publish a camera_info topic.
> >
> > How can I make this work?
> >
> > best regards,
> >
> > Steven
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> Have you tried using our version of usb_cam?
> http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu/git/usb_cam.git
>
> Maybe we should unify all of the usb camera drivers at some point in the
> future.
>

Probably. We forked and made a few changes to the uvc_cam driver to support
camera_info_manager and some dynamic_reconfigure because we wanted a uvc
based driver. I'm not sure what the pluses and minuses are for however
usb_cam interfaces with the camera vs. using UVC like uvc_cam does. Any have
some experience or thoughts on that?

See https://github.com/ericperko/uvc_cam for the uvc_cam fork.

- Eric


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