Only released in EOL distros:   fuerte groovy hydro indigo kinetic

Overview

This package provides a ROS interface for Firewire based stereo cameras such as Point Grey Bumblebee2. These cameras meet the IEEE 1394 IIDC standard using libdc1394, which supports many camera and models.

This package is based on camera1394, and it uses the same parameters and topics. See camera1394 for more information on parameters and options.

Differences to camera1394

First, it interfaces stereo cameras compliant to IEEE 1394 IIDC standard. In order to do that, the readData function has been changed to support two images and their corresponding deinterlace using dc1394 lib. Finally, debayering on format7 modes has been allowed.

Stereo methods

Supported methods: Interlaced stereo, field stereo.

Examples

Launch the driver as a node:

<launch>
  <node pkg="camera1394stereo" type="camera1394stereo_node" name="camera1394stereo_node" output="screen" >
    <param name="video_mode" value="format7_mode3" />
    <param name="format7_color_coding" value="raw16" />
    <param name="bayer_pattern" value="grbg" />
    <param name="bayer_method" value="" />
    <param name="stereo_method" value="Interlaced" />
    <param name="camera_info_url_left" value="" />
    <param name="camera_info_url_right" value="" />
  </node>
</launch>

as a nodelet:

<launch>
  <arg name="camera" default="stereo"/>
  <arg name="base_topic" default="$(arg camera)" />
  <arg name="manager" default="manager" />

  <node pkg="nodelet" type="nodelet" name="$(arg base_topic)_node" output="screen"
      args="load camera1394stereo/driver $(arg manager)">
    <param name="frame_id" value="$(arg base_topic)_optical" />
    <param name="camera_info_url_left" value="/path/to/calibration_left.yaml" />
    <param name="camera_info_url_right" value="/path/to/calibration_right.yaml" />
    <remap from="stereo_camera" to="$(arg base_topic)" />
  </node>
</launch>

Report a Bug

Please use the issue tracker at Github to report bugs or request features: https://github.com/srv/camera1394stereo/issues