[ros-users] Adding a New Stereo System to ROS

[Adi Shavit]

Hi Koen,

  These are the cameras I have VRMagic Multisensor Intelligent
Cameras<http://www.vrmagic.com/imaging/cameras-framegrabber/multi-sensor-cameras/>
.
How would you suggest I proceed?

Thanks,
Adi


On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:59 PM, koen buys <buys.koen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Adi,
>
> What type of camera's do you use? We just included a patch in
> camera_drivers to allow for synchronized use of
> prosilica_cameras. My idea is also to expand my implementation to
> allow for a 'stereo' setup with multiple camera's.
> My setup typically has a larger baseline than PR2's.
>
> Koen
>
> On 15 February 2011 13:50, Adi Shavit <adishavit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   I am new to ROS.
> > I have a 4 camera stereo set using 4 synchronized cameras that are not
> > supported by ROS.
> > This is not unlike what PR2 uses.
> > I would like to use these camera with ROS.
> > What is the best way to do this?
> >
> > Do I need to write my own "driver"? That is code that interfaces with the
> > camera APIs and publishes to ROS?
> > In that case, what do I publish? Do I give only raw image output or is
> there
> > a way to publish a stereo pair?
> > Are there any examples for how to do this, e.g. from some other stereo
> > cameras?
> > What is the easiest way to do this? As I said I am new to ROS.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adi
> >
> >
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