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Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: hydro-devel)
Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: indigo-devel)
Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: indigo-devel)
Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>, Isaac I.Y. Saito <gm130s AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: jade-devel)
Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>, Isaac I.Y. Saito <gm130s AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: jade-devel)
Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>, Isaac I.Y. Saito <gm130s AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: jade-devel)
Package Summary
Launch files to open an RGBD device and load all nodelets to convert raw depth/RGB/IR streams to depth images, disparity images, and (registered) point clouds.
- Maintainer status: maintained
- Maintainer: Piyush Khandelwal <piyushk AT gmail DOT com>, Isaac I.Y. Saito <gm130s AT gmail DOT com>
- Author: Patrick Mihelich and others
- License: BSD
- Bug / feature tracker: https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch/issues
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-drivers/rgbd_launch.git (branch: noetic-devel)
New in Hydro
Overview
This package contains launch files for using RGB-D devices such as the Microsoft Kinect in ROS. It creates a nodelet graph to transform raw data from the device driver into point clouds, disparity images, and other products suitable for processing and visualization.
rgbd_launch contains all the common launch files required by a driver specific launch package such as openni_launch or freenect_launch. There are 2 important launch files:
processing.launch.xml - Top-level launch file not designed for direct execution, but should be included from driver-specific launch files. This file launches a constellation of nodelets to process data from a RGB-D driver such as openni_camera or freenect_camera. This file also accepts a number of arguments designed to streamline the constellation of nodelets.
kinect_frames.launch - Launch the tf tree for a Kinect. This file can also be launched internally from openni_launch or freenect_launch.
Launch Files
rgbd_launch contains many internal launch files to split up processing. Only the following launch files should be used externally:
processing.launch.xml
Launches many processing nodelets for turning the raw RGB and depth images into useful products, such as point clouds. Allows a number of arguments to streamline processing.
Arguments
Streamline processing nodelet graph
- Launch nodelets for generating raw and rectified monochrome and color images. Given bayer encoded images on the rgb/image_raw topic from the RGB-D driver, the rgb processing chain produces rgb/image_mono, rgb/image_rect_mono, rgb/image_color and rgb/image_rect_color.
- Usage of this parameter requires rgb_processing to be true. Debayers the image into monochrome and color. If set to true then explanation for rgb_processing directly applies. If set to false the rgb processing chain only produces rgb/image_rect_color.
- If set to true, rectifies the raw IR image (ir/image_raw -> ir/image_rect_raw)
- Given the raw depth image, rectifies it, converts both the raw and rectified images to metric format (uint16 -> float), and produces a pointcloud. Requires depth/image_raw. Produces depth/image_rect_raw (rectified), depth/image (metric), depth/image_rect (rectified, metric), depth/points (pointcloud).
- Generates a registered RGBD pointcloud from the device data (requires rgb_processing to be enabled). A pointcloud can be generated through a software registration pipeline (sw_registered_processing = true, used when depth_registration for device driver is set to false ) by registering the depth image from the depth frame to an RGB frame and merging with the RGB image. If software registration is being used, depth_processing needs to be enabled. Alternatively, the device can be directly asked to generate a registered depth image in the RGB frame with can be merged with the RGB Image through the hardware registration pipeline (hw_registered_processing = true, used when depth_registration for device driver is set to true)
- Generates a disparity image from unregistered depth data (i.e. in the depth frame). Converts depth/image_rect_raw and projector/camera_info into the disparity image depth/disparity. Requires depth_processing to be enabled.
- Enables the software registration pipeline. depth/image_rect_raw -> depth_registered/sw_registered/image_rect_raw (registered) -> depth_registered/points AND depth_registered/disparity.
- Enables the hardware registration pipeline. depth/image_raw -> depth_registered/hw_registered/image_rect_raw (rectified) -> depth_registered/points AND depth_registered/disparity.
- Size of message queue for synchronizing image and camera_info topics. You may need to raise this if images take significantly longer to travel over the network than camera info.
Remapping
- Remap the rgb namespace.
- Remap the ir namespace.
- Remap the depth namespace.
- Remap the depth_registered namespace.
- Remap the projector namespace.
Example Parameter Configurations
freenect_launch contains some example configurations that you can run and test running nodelets in the system:
roslaunch freenect_launch freenect-xyz.launch roslaunch freenect_launch freenect-registered-xyzrgb.launch
The first launch files only produces a pointcloud from depth data. The second launch file produces a registered pointcloud using hardware registration on the device.
