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Camera feed frame_id

asked 2020-12-09 09:15:21 -0500

Y009
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updated 2020-12-11 08:58:53 -0500

Very new to ROS but I have set up a CSI camera with ROS melodic, running on ubuntu 18.04 (On jetson nano). And I am trying to overlay a pointcloud on it in rviz, however the camera visualization doesn't work as I'd expect. I am getting a For frame [/cam_frame]: Frame [/cam_frame] does not exist. The camera info and topic are recieved and OK and the image visulization works fine.

As far as I could understand I have to add some information to each frame to make this work? How would i do this?

Edit: just saw that the rviz Camera display requires calibration information, while the Image display does not. Going to test with calibration set.

Edit2: Still no luck after calibrating

Edit3: As far as I understood I am going to have to use the SetCameraInfo service to add the data.

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answered 2020-12-12 07:20:40 -0500

gvdhoorn
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I am getting a For frame [/cam_frame]: Frame [/cam_frame] does not exist.

this implies the sensor_msgs/Image messages have their header.frame_id set to cam_frame, but that TF frame is actually not broadcast by anything.

The Camera display shows "the world" of RViz rendered from a specific viewpoint. To be able to do that, it must "know" where objects and the camera frame are. For this it uses TF. If you specify cam_frame as the frame_id (== TF frame), but that frame is not broadcast by anyone, RViz cannot resolve the location of the viewpoint from which to render objects.

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thank you, got it working

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