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Basler camera detected randomly in ROS

asked 2017-07-05 17:16:43 -0600

Dasa gravatar image

Hello,

I am trying to work with 4 Basler cameras (ac A640-120gm) and ROS and unfortunately when I launch pylon_camera_node.launch ROS connect with a random camera instead of the camera I ask in the config YAML file

Let's say I am working with 4 cameras with the following IDs: "Sun", "Moon", "Earth" & "Mars" (assigned to the cameras via IpConfigurator). When I try to connect to "Sun", I will use roslaunch to call its own launch file, but ROS instead of connect to "Sun" it will connect to another camera (for example "Moon" ) Message in ROS:

[ INFO] [1499291312.687715871]: No Device User ID set -> Will open the camera device found first
[ INFO] [1499291312.943262562]: Found camera with DeviceUserID Moon: acA640-120gm

The launch file in pylon_camera/launch has the following values:

<<?xml version="1.0"?>
<launch>
<arg name="respawn" default="false" />
<arg name="debug" default="false" />
<arg name="node_name" default="pylon_camera_node" />
<arg name="config_file" default="$(find pylon_camera)/config/default_camSun.yaml" />

<arg unless="$(arg debug)" name="launch_prefix" value="" />
<arg     if="$(arg debug)" name="launch_prefix" value="gdb -ex run --args" />

<node name="$(arg node_name)" pkg="pylon_camera" type="pylon_camera_node" output="screen"
      respawn="$(arg respawn)" launch-prefix="$(arg launch_prefix)">
    <param name="camera_frame" value="$(arg node_name)" type="string" />
<param name="camera_info_url" value="file:///Path_to_/.ros/camera_info/Sun.yaml" type="string" />
    <rosparam command="load" file="/Path_to_/.ros/camera_info/Sun.yaml" />
</node>

</launch>

The YAML file default_camSun.yaml (located in pylon_camera/config) has the following values

 camera_frame: camera
 device_user_id: "Sun"
 camera_info_url: "/Path_to_/.ros/camera_info/sun.yaml"
 image_encoding: "mono8"
 frame_rate: 5.0

I can understand ROS choose a camera randomly if I have the value device_user_id with an empty value, but I am specifying to work with the camera "Sun". And the camera is OK because sometime ROS choose the "Sun" camera in its random selection. How is it possible? device_user_id need to be filled in another format?

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Your launch file is confused- camera_info_url appears as a param in the launch file and the camSun yaml file, and the arg config_file is being ignored in favor of hard coding a location in the rosparam command load.

Try using rosparam get on the command line to see if device_user_id was set right.

lucasw gravatar image lucasw  ( 2017-07-05 19:31:58 -0600 )edit

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answered 2017-07-05 19:34:26 -0600

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updated 2017-07-05 19:36:05 -0600

Change the rosparam load file parameter back to

<rosparam command="load" file="$(arg config_file)" />

like it was in the pylon_camera_node.launch and delete the camera_info_url param line.

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Thank you Lucasw! It works perfect now! But why it wasn't working before? It was not redundant information?

Dasa gravatar image Dasa  ( 2017-07-06 12:33:52 -0600 )edit

You had Sun.yaml getting loaded for the pylon camera parameters instead of default_camSun.yaml

lucasw gravatar image lucasw  ( 2017-07-06 12:43:00 -0600 )edit

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