rtabmap+stereo camera+two web cam

asked 2017-10-31 14:25:44 -0500

zahra.kh gravatar image

updated 2017-11-01 09:26:27 -0500

matlabbe gravatar image

hi all. i have two Microsoft webcams that use for stereo mapping and localization with rtabmap. my launch file for run these camera and use rtabmap is this:

<launch>

<arg name="rtabmapviz" default="true" />
<group ns="stereo">

  <node name="left" pkg="usb_cam" type="usb_cam_node" output="screen" >
    <param name="video_device" value="/dev/video0" />
    <param name="image_width" value="640" />
    <param name="image_height" value="480" />
    <param name="pixel_format" value="yuyv" />
    <param name="camera_frame_id" value="left" />
    <param name="io_method" value="mmap"/>
    <param name="camera_info_url" value="file:////home/zahra/Desktop/stereo/left.yaml"/>
  </node>


  <node name="right" pkg="usb_cam" type="usb_cam_node" output="screen" >
    <param name="video_device" value="/dev/video1" />
    <param name="image_width" value="640" />
    <param name="image_height" value="480" />
    <param name="pixel_format" value="yuyv" />
    <param name="camera_frame_id" value="right" />
    <param name="io_method" value="mmap"/>
    <param name="camera_info_url" value="file:///home/zahra/Desktop/stereo/right.yaml"/>
  </node>

<node name="stereo_image_proc" pkg="stereo_image_proc" type="stereo_image_proc" output="screen"  >

<remap from="/stereo/left/image" to="/stereo/left/image_raw"/>
<remap from="/stereo/right/image" to="/stereo/right/image_raw"/>
    <param name="prefilter_size"            value="35"/>
        <param name="prefilter_cap"             value="11"/>
        <param name="correlation_window_size"   value="41"/>
        <param name="min_disparity"             value="-15"/>
        <param name="disparity_range"           value="128"/>
        <param name="uniqueness_ratio"          value="0.0"/>
        <param name="texture_threshold"         value="1000"/>
        <param name="speckle_size"              value="500"/>
        <param name="speckle_range"             value="16"/>
        <param name="approximate_sync"          value="true"/>
        <param name="queue_size"                value="5"/>
</node>

</group>

<node name="stereo_cam" pkg="image_view" type="stereo_view" output="screen" >
<param name="queue_size" value="2000" />
<param name="approximate_sync" value="True" />
<remap from="/stereo/left/image" to="/stereo/left/image_raw"/>
<remap from="/stereo/right/image" to="/stereo/right/image_raw"/>
</node>

<!-- rotate camera so z axis is up and x forward. -->
   <arg name="pi/2" value="1.5707963267948966" />
   <node pkg="tf" type="static_transform_publisher" name="camera_base_link" args="0 0 0 -$(arg pi/2) 0 -$(arg pi/2) camera_link stereo/left 100" /> 

<group ns="rtabmap">   

      <!-- Stereo Odometry -->   
      <node pkg="rtabmap_ros" type="stereo_odometry" name="stereo_odometry" output="screen">
         <remap from="left/image_rect"       to="/stereo/left/image_rect"/>
         <remap from="right/image_rect"      to="/stereo/right/image_rect"/>
         <remap from="left/camera_info"      to="/stereo/left/camera_info"/>
         <remap from="right/camera_info"     to="/stereo_camera/right/camera_info"/>

    <param name="approx_sync"                   type="bool"     value="true"/>
        <param name="frame_id"                      type="string"   value="camera_link"/>
        <param name="odom_frame_id"                 type="string"   value="odom"/>
        <param name="queue_size"                    type="int"      value="5"/>
    </node>

<!-- Visual SLAM: args: "delete_db_on_start" and "udebug" -->
      <node name="rtabmap" pkg="rtabmap_ros" type="rtabmap" output="screen" args="--delete_db_on_start">
         <param name="frame_id"         type="string" value="camera_link"/>
         <param name="subscribe_stereo" type="bool" value="true"/>
         <param name="subscribe_depth"  type="bool" value="false"/>

         <remap from="left/image_rect"   to="/stereo/left/image_rect_color"/>
         <remap from="right/image_rect"  to="/stereo/right/image_rect"/>
         <remap from="left/camera_info"  to="/stereo/left/camera_info"/>
         <remap from="right/camera_info" to="/stereo_camera/right/camera_info"/>
     <remap from="odom" to="/rtabmap/odom"/>

        <param name="approx_sync"                   type="bool"     value="true"/>
        <param name="queue_size"                    type="int"      value="30"/>

</node>

<!-- Visualisation RTAB-Map -->
      <node if="$(arg rtabmapviz)" pkg="rtabmap_ros" type="rtabmapviz" name="rtabmapviz" args="-d $(find rtabmap_ros)/launch/config/rgbd_gui.ini" output="screen">
         <param name="subscribe_stereo"    type="bool" value="true"/>
         <param name ...
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Can you verify that topics that stereo_odometry is subscribed to are actually published? "$ rostopic hz"

matlabbe gravatar image matlabbe  ( 2017-11-01 09:28:31 -0500 )edit

i changed my launch file : for (<remap from="right/camera_info" to="/stereo/right/camera_info"/>) , for

zahra.kh gravatar image zahra.kh  ( 2017-11-02 00:33:34 -0500 )edit

(i changed stereo/left to left ) , but when run the error is:

zahra.kh gravatar image zahra.kh  ( 2017-11-02 00:35:15 -0500 )edit

[ WARN] (2017-11-02 12:25:16.648) Stereo.cpp:159::computeCorrespondences() A large number (374/382) of stereo correspondences are rejected!

zahra.kh gravatar image zahra.kh  ( 2017-11-02 00:36:16 -0500 )edit

Optical flow may have failed, images are not calibrated, the background is too far (no disparity between the images) or maximum disparity may be too small (128).

zahra.kh gravatar image zahra.kh  ( 2017-11-02 00:36:23 -0500 )edit

[ WARN] (2017-11-02 12:25:16.651) OdometryF2M.cpp:386::computeTransform() Registration failed: "Not enough features in images (old=1, new=327, min=20)"

zahra.kh gravatar image zahra.kh  ( 2017-11-02 00:36:48 -0500 )edit

It seems a calibration problem. Also, if the two webcams cannot be hardware synchronized, you can only use the cameras in static because disparity would change between left and right images while moving. Can you show a screenshot of left and right image side by side? rosrun image_view stereo_view

matlabbe gravatar image matlabbe  ( 2017-11-03 08:01:18 -0500 )edit
matlabbe gravatar image matlabbe  ( 2017-11-03 08:04:06 -0500 )edit