Driver for SoftKinetic DS325 / DS311

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Unfortunately, AFAIK all our efforts make use of the drivers provided by SoftKinetic: they are merely wrappers that make the data from the driver available to a ROS node graph. As there don't seem to be any ARM drivers for the sensors in the first place, using our work wouldn't help you.

Hi gvdhoorn, I was curious what your status was on this and whether or not you'd like any help. I'd be happy to help build a more robust open source driver with you if you would like some remote assistance :-)

Hi ndepalma Just to let you know, I'm currently investigating a open source driver for the DS325 as we need a version to work with ARM architecture. When your talk about helping with building a driver, is that a ROS driver to link to the softkinetic driver, or the usb driver itself?

@ndepalma: I haven't actually had time to work on anything. We do still use the camera in a project though, so it is still on the todo list. Contact me off-list, we can perhaps coordinate something.

@gvdhoorn: The project I think you are referring to uses a wrapper around the DS driver to supply ready to use opencv matrices. It is nothing fancy, it basically copies the data from a DS struct to a cv::Mat and retrieves it upon request, but it is working fine.

@Hansg91: afaict it looks like the ipa driver is publishing sensor_msgs::Image and sensor_msgs::PointCloud2 msgs, which I would consider to be a minimum for any driver of a rgbd sensor. Am I misunderstanding you?

@gvdhoorn: I am referring to the driver that was created for the Yucca project. It is not so much a ROS driver however. It is more an opencv driver, since we chose to not publish the RGB/Depth and instead have one process control all use of the camera. A ROS adaption should then be very easy.

Maybe I should've mentioned we are colleagues ;)

I never got round to making an actual driver for the device. I do have some experience with it now though, so we could try to collaborate. Getting a proper camera driver going would be very nice indeed.