Leopard Imaging LI-eSP870-STEREO-M031 with ROS
Hi all, If there's anyone out there that also picked up one of Leopard Imaging's Etron eSP870-powered stereo depth cameras (here), have you managed to get a depth stream to come through in Rviz or something similar? I don't seem to be able to find any official support or packages for this camera, so are there any generic packages that would take a left and right image and be able to generate a depth cloud from them? Any help is much appreciated, Jake
Farthest I ever got was obtaining an official SDK from Leopard, through email. Their SDK allows you to view all the streams, but still no ROS integration.
Have you considered writing a wrapper node that bridges the SDK functionality into ROS?
In truth, I am still very much a novice in terms of ROS, and I think that such a task would be better left to someone with a bit more experience in this field. In addition, there are much better 3D cameras out there, Intel Realsense and Asus Xtion, to name a few, with ROS support already.
Do you have any update on your integration? We are expecting to do the same... Thanks for ur feedback.
Honestly, I gave up on integration with this camera, there are other options that do it better for a similar price point, and for less work too. Stereo 3D on this camera is nice, except when you want to be accurate :) Plus, I needed low-light performance, something very easily done with IR sensors.
Any ROS solution for leopard imaging cameras?
From what I can see there's a ros driver for libdc1394 (IEEE 1394 Digital Camera protocol) and some Leopard Imaging cameras are on a list of cameras that support the protocol. Not sure about newer cameras. The page may be out of date. https://damien.douxchamps.net/ieee139...