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How to stream gazebo camera into openCV

asked 2021-02-13 06:15:49 -0500

nile.shaw gravatar image

I have followed this tutorial to simulate IRIS quad copter in gazebo and control it using dronekit on python.

https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/using-...

I read my webcam stream using openCV's 'cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0) '

How to make this function read the simulated camera on the iris quadcopter?

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answered 2021-02-25 22:51:49 -0500

loguna gravatar image

For me I ususlly use a "libgazebo_ros_camera.so" plugin to capture Gazebo images and publish to a Ros topic.

Afterwards, obtain the Image via Ros topic and use Cv_Bridge to turn the image into OpenCV friendly.

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answered 2021-02-15 13:33:43 -0500

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You shall use cv_bridge to convert the Gazebo Image topics into OpenCV freindly image frames. I am almost sure, OpcenCV by itself won't detect Gazebo Topics as a streaming source.

You can find out more here, and in this question from myself, with a sample code.

Hope you can manage to do it.

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