working catkinized orb slam 2 or other monocular slam
I’ve been trying to install orb slam 2 for a few days, following the instructions on the hit hub repo. The install always hangs at 59% I’ve tried the catkinised version from enth-asl on GitHub and I get an error rested to log that I don’t have any ideas on how to fix. https://github.com/ethz-asl/orb_slam_...
It really should not be this hard to install a package that is used so much. I’ve tried on both Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04
Does anyone have any links to a working catkinzed package, or know of another monocular slam package that gives point cloud data? Preferably a Sufi apt-get install job, or a catkinized package.
Edit: This is the output from following Femer's instructions -
catkin build orb_slam_2_ros
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Profile: default
Extending: [cached] /opt/ros/kinetic
Workspace: /home/ubuntu
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Source Space: [exists] /home/ubuntu/src
Log Space: [exists] /home/ubuntu/logs
Build Space: [exists] /home/ubuntu/build
Devel Space: [exists] /home/ubuntu/devel
Install Space: [unused] /home/ubuntu/install
DESTDIR: [unused] None
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Devel Space Layout: linked
Install Space Layout: None
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Additional CMake Args: None
Additional Make Args: None
Additional catkin Make Args: None
Internal Make Job Server: True
Cache Job Environments: False
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Whitelisted Packages: None
Blacklisted Packages: None
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Workspace configuration appears valid.
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[build] Found '2' packages in 0.0 seconds.
[build] Package table is up to date.
Starting >>> orb_slam_2_catkin
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Errors << orb_slam_2_catkin:cmake /home/ubuntu/logs/orb_slam_2_catkin/build.cmake.007.log
CMake Error at /home/ubuntu/src/orb_slam_2_catkin/CMakeLists.txt:6 (find_package):
By not providing "Findcatkin_simple.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this
project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
"catkin_simple", but CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "catkin_simple"
with any of the following names:
catkin_simpleConfig.cmake
catkin_simple-config.cmake
Add the installation prefix of "catkin_simple" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
"catkin_simple_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files. If
"catkin_simple" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it
has been installed.
cd /home/ubuntu/build/orb_slam_2_catkin; catkin build --get-env orb_slam_2_catkin | catkin env -si /usr/bin/cmake /home/ubuntu/src/orb_slam_2_catkin --no-warn-unused-cli -DCATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX=/home/ubuntu/devel/.private/orb_slam_2_catkin -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/ubuntu/install; cd -
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Failed << orb_slam_2_catkin:cmake [ Exited with code 1 ]
Failed <<< orb_slam_2_catkin [ 0.3 seconds ]
Abandoned <<< orb_slam_2_ros [ Unrelated job failed ]
[build] Summary: 0 of 2 packages succeeded.
[build] Ignored: None.
[build] Warnings: None.
[build] Abandoned: 1 packages were abandoned.
[build] Failed: 1 packages failed.
[build] Runtime: 0.4 seconds total.
The relevant package is in the src folder. Also started from scratch and cloned orb slam gits and the catkin simple git but got the same output.
I'm not a linux guru, and appreciate that this is probably very obvious to someone that works with ROS day in, day out, but the documentation in this case is extremely poor.
Catkin make also failed before, but for a different reason. It took an hour to get to that point and i accidentally deleted the ...
Hi, can you please copy and paste the error that you get?
I can't copy the output because the system completely hangs wen installing using the instructions on the ORB_SLAM2 github - https://github.com/raulmur/ORB_SLAM2 But te final output is something along the lines of [59%] building cxx object cmakefiles/ORB_SLAM2.dir/src/Viewer.cc.o
Please don't use an answer to provide an update to your question. You can edit your question with this information. This isn't a forum.
re: cannot find package error: that error is quite common (and a google search should have turned up quite some results). It's caused by the fact that you most likely didn't install all the dependencies of the pkg before trying to build it.
See #q252478 for the general procedure.
The readmes of a lot of pkg on
ethz-asldon't explain this, but I guess the authors assume a certain level of knowledge/experience on the part of their users, and don't want to keep duplicating basic install instructions.This is exactly why so many people in the academic community can't be arsed to use ROS - you don't document stuff, when people ask for help you use snide remarks like "basic install instructions" and you assume everyone else has your level of knowledge, like an autistic 10 year old.
I've updated my answer and included the dependency on catkin_simple. Anyway there's no need to offend people who share their code and are willing to help fro free. We are a community, not a company ;)
@Ben12345: I'm sorry you feel that way. As @Femer writes: we're all just people making their work available to other users, in the hope they might find it useful. We have other things to do, next to that (such as writing papers, running experiments, being scientists).