Hi guys,
I'm now trying to use a Fotonic depth camera in ROS and the camera is not covered by ROS. They do have a Linux API and they already provide some SDK for me.
http://www.fotonic.com/product/fotonic-e-serie-16w/
It seems that I have to write a driver on my own, but I have no experience on this. Anyone has written this driver before? Or is there any where that I can learn how to start my work?
Originally posted by blueflame on ROS Answers with karma: 35 on 2016-05-30
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Hi! There is a ROS implementation but it has some issues related to memory leaks and filter tuning.
https://github.com/RobotnikAutomation/fotonic_3dcamera
Hope this helps. I will try to improve this package at late January.
Originally posted by dagarzonr with karma: 26 on 2016-12-14
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Thanks for your answer. I've finish mine in June 2016. Here is my own work. I pushed it on GitHub recently. It publishes the ROS topic in 30Hz. Hope I can help other people.
https://github.com/BoomFan/fotonic_wrapper.git
Originally posted by blueflame with karma: 35 on 2017-03-16
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Comment by boooooosh on 2017-07-25:
Hi, thanks for the work! A question: have you ever met the problem of NOT able to retrieve the point cloud? The device closed due to a error saying 'Error in header retrieval', I am not sure whether I have to change some part of the code to make this work?
Comment by blueflame on 2017-07-25:
Hi. It's been a while since my first version of the code, so I kind of forgot what I actually did. But I think you are right. I did compile their official driver and copy them into "/usr/local/" directory.
Comment by blueflame on 2017-07-25:
This is what I did after compiling:
cd /usr/local/
sudo mkdir -p fotonic
sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/fz-linux-api_x64/include/. /usr/local/fotonic
sudo cp -r ~/Downloads/fz-linux-api_x64/lib/. /usr/local/fotonic
Comment by boooooosh on 2017-07-25:
Many thx! I done by setting the link_library to the local lib folder. That makes everyone happy!