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Supported Turtlebot Sensors? - inc. Raspberry Pi

asked 2017-01-15 04:41:54 -0500

MarkyMark2012 gravatar image

updated 2021-04-24 03:04:20 -0500

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Hi All,

I've just ordered a turtle-bot base and docking station. With the Asus XTION (Which I have running on another robot) and MS Kinect becoming rare - what sensors are now supported? I know the Orbbec Astra looks to have been tested - is this now the standard? And for me has anyone used this in-conjunction with the Rasp Pi 3?

https://discourse.ros.org/t/new-depth...

Or is there something else I should look at getting?

Thanks

Mark

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answered 2017-01-23 04:17:56 -0500

updated 2017-01-23 04:18:56 -0500

Quick advice: Don't get the "Astra Pro", get the regular "Astra" instead (see my answer here).

To me, the Orbbec Astra is the best replacement for the ASUS Xtion Pro that you can get at the moment. Quality-wise, it's almost as good as the Xtion, and it's OpenNI2-compliant, so it's a drop-in replacement for the Xtion in most cases.

There are still a few kinks with the ROS drivers, so you need to fiddle around a bit before you figure out which combination of driver version and parameters gives you full framerate registered point clouds and no artifacts at object edges, but it's possible.

I've successfully run the Astra on an ARM SBC (the Odroid XU4), so I don't see why it shouldn't work on a RPI3. There are even binary ARM packages available for ROS.

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Hi Martin - thanks for the info. Shall look at getting the standard Astra

Mark

MarkyMark2012 gravatar image MarkyMark2012  ( 2017-01-23 06:12:40 -0500 )edit

I did a couple internet searches and have two anecdotal posts. One person reported the astra + RPi resulted in slow(?) frame rates. Another person reported they increased the RAM allocated to the to 384(?).

suforeman gravatar image suforeman  ( 2017-01-23 17:57:47 -0500 )edit

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