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Supported Hardware

This driver should works with every pan tilt camera

ROS API

corobot_pantilt

corobot_pantilt is a driver for pantilt cameras. This driver was designed to control the movement of a Corobot pantilt camera.

Subscribed Topics

pantilt (corobot_msgs/PanTilt)

• Pan and Tilt command

Parameters

device (string, default: /dev/video0)

• path to the camera

script_path (string, default: init_camera.sh)

• path to an initialization script necessary for the pantilt to work

Troubleshooting

Here is a set of instructions in case you cannot control your pan tilt camera:

1. Install v4l-conf and unvcdynctrl

sudo apt-get install v4l-conf unvcdynctrl

1. Execute:

v4l-info /dev/video0
uvcdynctrl –cv
sudo chmod 777 /dev/video0

1. Disconnect the camera
2. Reconnect it to another usb port
3. The camera movement should now work