Gazebo camera plugin rendering in wrong order on Virtual Machine
We are using ROS & Gazebo over virtual machine (VMWare Player). The Gazebo camera rendering worked fine in the Gazebo shipped with ROS Hydro. But in Gazebo version shipped with ROS Indigo, the...
View ArticleCamera compatibility with ROS/Turtlebot 2
I'm fairly new to ROS so I apologize if this is an obvious question. What restrictions, if any, does ROS and/or the turtlebot 2 have when it comes to camera compatibility? I want to use a Logitech...
View Articleis there a package for a two motor boat / catamaran? or does the...
I am building a boat/ catamaran that has a camera, GPS, and a sonar. it navigates using two fixed motors. can I simulate this in gazebo? what is the best way to build the interface for this robot??
View ArticleCombine position estimates from Lidar SLAM and PTAM
Hi all, I have an AR drone with a Lidar attached. I have hector_slam running giving out a position estimate for the drone which is working fine. I also have a PTAM node running which is also spitting...
View Articledid anybody have experience with oriensens?
Hi all, I found a 3d camera in wiki of ROS last year, which was "http://wiki.ros.org/orsens_ros" I ordered a camera from http://www.oriense-tech.com/ , which should be delivered till February 2016, but...
View ArticleRun QT project with ROS publisher/subscriber
Hi all, I'm new to ROS. I have used the tutorials to make a catkin workspace with a publisher and subscriber cpp file. I have run these via terminal and they work fine. I have also created QT projects...
View ArticleWhat is this rosdep error?
Trying to get the dependencies for a camera with the following command: mike@spinach:~/ros_workspace$ rosdep install prosilica_camera And I get the following error: ERROR: Rosdep cannot find all...
View ArticleImplementing Target Tracking on a boat
Hi everyone, I am trying to design and implement a target tracking system on a boat and I am searching to find a suitable sensor to do this. As you know we can not use Kinect outdoors. another option...
View ArticleAdding a camera to my urdf
Hello, I am trying to add a camera to the end of an arm using xacros. The camera link URDF is: 30.01.3962634R8G8B88008000.01100arm_sensors/cameratrue0.0image_rawcamera_infocamera When I run the launch...
View Articlegazebo camera frame is inconsistent with rviz + opencv convention
It looks like the gazebo camera frame convention is not the same as rviz and opencv, which the image below shows  In opencv, z is pointing into the...
View Articleinterface gazebo camera with c++ program
how can i interface camera in gazebo which publish image topic , to non ros c++ program which take its input from usb web cam ? can i make a node to convert the ros topic to fake usb cam or what...
View ArticleA problem with Gstreamer 1.0 on ROS
Hello, I'm trying to get running a UDP Camera with the help of Gstreamer on ROS. I carefully went through the tutorials of Gstreamer and I managed to get a functional C program to get the video feed....
View ArticleCamera_info for a camera publishing already rectified images
I have a camera which gives me images which are already rectified. I'm writing the ROS driver for it and I'm wondering what I should do with the camera_info message. Should I : - Calibrate the camera...
View ArticleProblem using CameraPublisher plugin gazebo5
Hi. I'm trying to load the `libCameraPublisher.so` into gazebo5 but it gives me this error while spawning my robot: Actually I want to publish the camera's data into a ros topic. > [Err]...
View ArticleHow to build a vision driven system in ROS
I am new to ROS, trying to build a vision driven robotic system (UR10). The application is to control the UR10 motion based on the images captured by a webcam. The webcam captures images of a certain...
View ArticleHow to use the Mac book pro's iSight camera in ROS for the webcam?
I'm a ROS newbie and would like to use the internal camera called I believe iSight on my Mac Book Pro laptop to do some image processing development. I would like to know if anyone else has gone down...
View ArticleIntel RealSense R200 Camera Calibration
I've been trying to calibrate the Intel RealSense camera using various ROS tools for some time. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with ROS Indigo. The nodelet I've been using is:...
View Articlecamera calibration with small checkerboard
in the camera [calibration tutorial](http://wiki.ros.org/camera_calibration/Tutorials/MonocularCalibration) they use a very large board with a checkerboard pattern. Is a human-sized checkerboard...
View ArticleConverting Pixel Coordinates to spatial coordinates: Python, Ros
Hi, So currently, i am reading an image from my robot's camera, located on its hand. I want to obtain the set of coordinates of a certain object, from both the camera's perspective and the robot's...
View Articletf setup for sensor on a gimbal on a robot.
I looked through the [tf setup](http://wiki.ros.org/navigation/Tutorials/RobotSetup/TF), but it only show updating tf for a fixed system at arbitrary 1Hz interval. Anyways, I plan on using sensor...
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