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roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch on multiple client

asked 2013-03-14 17:24:54 -0500

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Hi,

Greetings.

I am using ROS Electric. I have three ROS station, one is master and other two are client machines. Each client machine has its own Kinect. Master's IP is configured as ROS_MASTER_URI on both clients. I also want to use /camera/rgb/image_color and /camera/depth/image_raw topics on both clients, published from their own kinect. Now the problem is, whenever I launch kinect using 'roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch', it stops the execution of the same launch file on the other client. Means, suppose I launch the kinect on client1, now if I try to launch the kinect of client2 on client2 by using the previous command, it stops the kinect of the first client, client1. I am stuck with this for awhile. Your help to solve this problem will be highly appreciated.

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answered 2013-03-15 01:39:35 -0500

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Have you tried :

  • naming the différents nodes ?
  • giving the topics differents names ?

Here is an example of what I do, with two kinects, on the same computer :

Parameters :

<arg name="camera1_id" default="#1" />
<arg name="camera2_id" default="#2" />
<arg name="depth_registration" default="true" />
<arg name="camera1_name" default="kinect1" />
<arg name="camera2_name" default="kinect2" />

Launching :

 <!-- Launching first kinect-->
<include file="$(find openni_launch)/launch/openni.launch">
    <arg name="device_id" value="$(arg camera1_id)" />
    <arg name="camera" value="$(arg camera1_name)" />
    <arg name="depth_registration" value="$(arg depth_registration)" />
 </include>

<include file="$(find openni_launch)/launch/openni.launch"> <arg name="device_id" value="$(arg camera2_id)"/> <arg name="camera" value="$(arg camera2_name)"/> <arg name="depth_registration" value="$(arg depth_registration)"/> </include>

By doing so, all the topics will appear in the namespace kinect1 and kinect2, for example topics : "kinect1/rgb/image_color", "kinect2/depth/image_raw", etc...

Have a nice day,

Bests regards,

Steph

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Pay attention to the fact that my previous answer is using the new names in ROS Groovy. Thus, don't forget to change the name "openni_launch"' to "openni_camera" if you use Electric.

Stephane.M gravatar image Stephane.M  ( 2013-03-15 01:41:20 -0500 )edit

Thank you very much Stephane. It works :). I really appreciate it.

Tariq gravatar image Tariq  ( 2013-03-15 05:48:57 -0500 )edit

Cool, happy to help :-) Don't forget to put my answer as correct then :-)

Stephane.M gravatar image Stephane.M  ( 2013-03-15 05:59:08 -0500 )edit

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