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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

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Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

No service files found

Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

No service files found

Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

No version for distro kilted showing kinetic. Known supported distros are highlighted in the buttons above.
Package symbol

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver package from spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver repo

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Package Summary

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Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

No service files found

Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Package Summary

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Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

No service files found

Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

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CHANGELOG
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Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

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Package Summary

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Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

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Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
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Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Plugins

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

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kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

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Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
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Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
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Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Plugins

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Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

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Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

No service files found

Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange

Package symbol

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver package from spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver repo

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

ROS Distro
kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

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Package Summary

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Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

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Plugins

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spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

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kinetic

Package Summary

Tags No category tags.
Version 1.1.1
License MIT
Build type CATKIN
Use RECOMMENDED

Repository Summary

Checkout URI https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver.git
VCS Type git
VCS Version master
Last Updated 2021-06-20
Dev Status MAINTAINED
CI status Continuous Integration
Released UNRELEASED
Tags No category tags.
Contributing Help Wanted (0)
Good First Issues (0)
Pull Requests to Review (0)

Package Description

Point Grey (FLIR) Spinnaker based camera driver (Blackfly S etc.)

Additional Links

Maintainers

  • Vikrant Shah

Authors

  • Abhishek Bajpayee
  • Pushyami Kaveti
  • Vikrant Shah

master: Build Status dev: Build Status

spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

These are the ros drivers for running the Pt Grey (FLIR) cameras that use the Spinnaker SDK. This code has been tested with various Point Grey Blackfly S (BFS) cameras.

Compatibility Matrix

| Spinnaker | Architecture | Ubnuntu 16.04 Xenial +
ROS Kinetic | Ubnuntu 18.04 Bionic +
ROS Melodic | Ubnuntu 20.04 Focal +
ROS Noetic | |———–|:————:|:————————————–:|:————————————-:|:———————————–:| | 1.17.0.23 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.17.0.23 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 1.24.0.60 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | AMD64 | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.0.0.147 | ARM64 | :heavy_check_mark: | | :heavy_minus_sign: | | 2.2.0.48 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :heavy_check_mark: | :white_check_mark: | | 2.2.0.48 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | | | 2.3.0.77 | AMD64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | | :x: | | 2.3.0.77 | ARM64 | :heavy_minus_sign: | :x: | |

:heavy_check_mark: Tested :heavy_minus_sign: Not Applicable :white_check_mark: Reported to work :x: Known compatibility Issue

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

The pre-requisites for this repo include:

  • ros-kinetic-desktop-full
  • spinnaker (download from Pt Grey’s website)
  • ros-kinetic-cv-bridge
  • ros-kinetic-image-transport

After installing spinnaker, Verify that you can run your cameras with SpinView.

For x86_64 or x86_32 architecture, install the following:

  • libunwind-dev

# after installing ros, install other pre-requisites with: 

sudo apt install libunwind-dev ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

For arm64 (aarch64) architecture, install pre-requisites with:

sudo apt install ros-kinetic-cv-bridge ros-kinetic-image-transport

Installing

To install this spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver

mkdir -p ~/spinnaker_ws/src
cd spinnaker_ws/src
git clone https://github.com/neufieldrobotics/spinnaker_camera_driver.git
cd ~/spinnaker_ws/
catkin_make
source ~/spinnaker_ws/devel/setup.bash
# add this to ~/.bashrc to make this permanent 

Running the drivers

Modify the params/test_params.yaml file replacing the cam-ids and master cam serial number to match your camera’s serial number. Then run the code as:

# To launch nodelet verison of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver acquisition.launch

# To launch node version of driver, use #
roslaunch spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver node_acquisition.launch

# Test that the images are being published by running
rqt_image_view

Parmeters

All the parameters can be set via the launch file or via the yaml config_file. It is good practice to specify all the ‘task’ specific parameters via launch file and all the ‘system configuration’ specific parameters via a config_file.

Task Specific Parameters

  • ~binning (int, default: 1)
    Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
  • ~color (bool, default: false)
    Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
  • ~exposure_time (int, default: 0, 0:auto)
    Exposure setting for cameras, also available as dynamic reconfiguarble parameter.
  • ~external_trigger (bool, default: false)
    Camera triggering setting when using an external trigger. In this mode, none of the cameras would be set as a master camera. All cameras are setup to use external trigger. In this mode the main loop runs at rate set by soft_framerate, so if the external trigger rate is higher than the soft_framerate, the buffer will get filled and images will have a lag. Also in this mode, the getnextimage timeout is set to infinite so that the node dosen’t die if a trigger is not received for a while.
  • ~target_grey_value (double, default: 0 , 0:Continous/auto) Setting target_grey_value > 4 (min:4 , max:99) will turn AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto to ‘off’ and set AutoExposureTargetGreyValue to target_grey_value. Also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. see below in Dynamic reconfigurable parameter section.
  • ~frames (int, default: 50)
    Number of frames to save/view 0=ON
  • ~live (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI
  • ~live_grid (bool, default: false)
    Show images on screen GUI in a grid

File truncated at 100 lines see the full file

CHANGELOG
No CHANGELOG found.

Wiki Tutorials

This package does not provide any links to tutorials in it's rosindex metadata. You can check on the ROS Wiki Tutorials page for the package.

Dependant Packages

No known dependants.

Launch files

  • launch/acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/acquisition_external_trigger.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: true] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • gain [default: 0] — Gain setting. Gain should be positive (full range - 0 - 18 dB for blackfly-s camera) or zero (auto gain). if gain > max, it will be set to max allowed value. Default is 0, auto gain which is set according to target grey value or autoexposure settings
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter. This parameter has no meaning when auto exposure and auto gain are off
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 30] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • manager [default: vision_nodelet_manager] — name of the nodelet manager, comes handy when launching multiple nodelets from different launch files
      • external_manager [default: false] — If set to False(default), creates a nodelet manager with $(arg manager). If True, the acquisition/Capture waits for the nodelet_manager name $(arg manager)
      • tf_prefix [default: ] — will prefix (arg tf_prefix)/ to existing frame_id in Image msg and camerainfo msg
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/external_trigger_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array
  • launch/multiple_nodelet_example.launch
      • robot_ns [default: $(optenv ROBOT_NAME uas2)]
      • vision_nm [default: vision_nodelet_manager_ext] — name of the nodelet manager
      • camera_tf_prefix [default: ]
  • launch/node_acquisition.launch
      • binning [default: 1] — Binning for cameras, when changing from 2 to 1 cameras need to be unplugged and replugged
      • color [default: false] — Should color images be used (only works on models that support color images)
      • exposure_time [default: 0] — Exposure_time setting for cameras
      • external_trigger [default: false] — External trigger (No camera is master)
      • target_grey_value [default: 0] — AutoExposureTargetGreyValue min: 4 max: 99 if set below 4, AutoExposureTargetGreyValueAuto will be set to continuous(auto) also available as dynamic reconfigurable parameter
      • frames [default: 3400] — Numer of frames to save/view 0=ON
      • live [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI
      • live_grid [default: false] — Show images on screen GUI in a grid
      • output [default: screen] — display output to screen or log file
      • save [default: false] — flag whether images should be saved or not
      • save_path [default: ~] — location to save the image data
      • save_type [default: bmp] — Type of file type to save to when saving images locally: binary, tiff, bmp, jpeg etc.
      • soft_framerate [default: 20] — When hybrid software triggering is used, this controls the FPS, 0=as fast as possible
      • time [default: false] — Show time/FPS on output
      • to_ros [default: true] — Flag whether images should be published to ROS
      • utstamps [default: false] — Flag whether each image should have Unique timestamps vs the master cams time stamp for all
      • max_rate_save [default: false] — Flag for max rate mode which is when the master triggerst the slaves and saves images at maximum rate possible
      • tf_prefix [default: ]
      • config_file [default: $(find spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver)/params/test_params.yaml] — File specifying the parameters of the camera_array

Services

No service files found

Plugins

Recent questions tagged spinnaker_sdk_camera_driver at Robotics Stack Exchange