[ros-users] libfreenect based Kinect driver

[Jonathan Binney]

I'm also curious about whether libfreenect has support for the Asus Xtion.

It seems that primesense is no longer improving the 1.x version of the
openni driver, and the 2.x version is a ways off. That said, Willow Garage
is working on improving openni driver situation for the asus and the
kinect.  I don't have a firm date on when there will be a nicely working
version for ubuntu 12.04, but people are actively working on it and things
should improve over the next couple of months, so don't lose hope.

At the same time, having a libfreenect-based ROS node sounds like a great
idea. Neither the openni or libfreenect solution seem to have everything
that everyone needs, so people will be able to choose which package to use
based on the device they are using, the OS they are on, and the exact
features they need. Wherever possible, the two should have similar APIs, in
terms of the ROS topics that they publish and the parameters that they
expose.

-Jon Binney





On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Ivan Dryanovski
<ivan.dryanovski at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Piyush,
>
> This is an idea I've been considering for a while, for the same reasons
> you already outlined. Do you have any information on Asus Xtion Pro Live
> support? As far as I know:
>
> * the OpenNI drivers supports the Asus directly (albeit not very robustly,
> depending on the Ubuntu version).
> * the master branch of freenect does not support the Asus
> * there exists a version of the freenect driver modified for the Asus [1]
>
> I would be willing to contribute time for a stable driver which works
> seamlessly with both the Kinect and Asus hardware.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ivan
>
> [1] https://github.com/zarvox/**libfreenect/tree/xtion<https://github.com/zarvox/libfreenect/tree/xtion>
> ______________________________**_________________
> ros-users mailing list
> ros-users at code.ros.org
> https://code.ros.org/mailman/**listinfo/ros-users<https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ros.org/pipermail/ros-users/attachments/20121017/d1304fb1/attachment-0004.html>