ar_kinect not finding published point cloud data

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Hello,

I'm trying to use ar_kinect ( http://www.ros.org/wiki/ar_kinect ) to report pose information of a fiducial, visual marker.

I'm taking the following steps to run ar_kinect:

1. Open terminal and run: roscore
2. Open terminal and run the following to start Kinect: roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch
3. Open terminal and run the following so Kinect will begin reporting information on /camera/rgb/camera_info (which is needed by ar_kinect): rostopic hz /camera/rgb/image_mono
4. Open terminal and run: roslaunch ar_kinect ar_kinect.launch

After doing so, everything seems to start up correctly until it tries to subscribe to image and point cloud topics, as follows:

...

SIZE = 640, 480 Distortion factor = 0.000000 0.000000 -0.000000 1.000000 525.00000 0.00000 319.50000 0.00000 0.00000 525.00000 239.50000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 1.00000 0.00000

header: seq: 0 stamp: 0.000000000 frame_id: points[]: 0 width: 0 height: 0 sensor_origin_: 0 0 0 sensor_orientation_: 0 0 0 1 is_dense: 1

-1.205960 -0.903880 2.478000 [ar_kinect-1] process has died [pid 21130, exit code -11]. log files: /home/lebowski/.ros/log/c3fd81c4-80f9-11e0-835e-001de075d661/ar_kinect-1*.log all processes on machine have died, roslaunch will exit shutting down processing monitor... ... shutting down processing monitor complete done

Interestingly, it looks like it's picking up an empty point cloud based on the dump info shown above. But if I open a terminal and run the following, I see plenty of Kinect data being published on both topics:

rostopic echo /camera/rgb/points rostopic echo /camera/rgb/image_color

Any thoughts?

Thank you very much! Billy McCafferty http://www.sharprobotica.com/