API review

Proposer: your name here

Present at review:

• Jeremy Leibs

Question / concerns / comments

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Jeremy

• Does the Prosilica use the Image Transport?

  • Patrick: Yes

• What should the default frame_id be?

  • According to convention set by the lasers, my guess would be camera.

  • Patrick: I guess.

• Are there other possible values for ~trigger_mode? If not, why use a string rather than a bool?

  • Blaise: Good question. A bool might be nicer.

  • Patrick: Currently no, but there could be. For example capture at a fixed rate, or external triggering.

  • What happens if you set it to an invalid string?

    • Patrick: Currently the node will warn and continue using the current mode. Could make that error.

  • Should Triggered and Continuous be capitalized or not? I would have done them all lower case, but I don't know if we have conventions about this yet.

    • Patrick: I'm fine with lowercase. I'm actually not certain about "triggered" and "continuous" though - "polled" and "freerun" might be more accurate.

• The API needs a logical description of the expected behavior of the request_image service and the polled mode topics.

  • Blaise: a link to the polled camera package might help answer these. I don't believe that the polled camera package currently says when the publishers are destroyed.

  • Patrick: Yes these should be answered in the polled_camera documentation.

  • Are these latched?

    • Patrick: Yes

  • Are they ever destroyed?

    • Patrick: Yes, when the number of subscribers to that image topic drops to zero.

  • Can multiple people request polled topics?

    • Patrick: Yes

  • Can it fail?

    • Patrick: Yes, if the camera times out or throws some serious error.

  • How do you specify region of interest if you don't know the camera Height/Width?

    • Patrick: The only real use cases we've had for ROI is when you're tracking some object and confine the ROI to a window around that object for better frame rate & processing speed. In that case your first request is the full image, and after that you know the height/width from the CameraInfo message.

  • What happens if you make a call to request_image while the camera is in continuous mode?

    • Patrick: request_image is only advertised while in triggered mode, but if you manage to accomplish this somehow the service call will issue and error and return false.

Meeting agenda

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