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--- help:common:kamera_matlab_chameleon_en [2014/02/19 13:36]
zimmerk
+++ help:common:kamera_matlab_chameleon_en [2021/10/20 13:48]
wagnelib [Camera control (ROS)]
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 Camera Chameleon is digital USB 2.0 camera //[[http://www.ptgrey.com/products/chameleon/Chameleon_datasheet.pdf|Chameleon]]// manufactued by [[http://www.ptgrey.com|PointGrey]].
-==== Camera control ====
+==== Camera control (Matlab on Windows) ====
 The camera can be operated in MATLAB via [[http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/toolbox/imaq/f9-75080.html|Image Acquisition Toolboxu]].
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   - Eventually, you can clear the memory by the following commands <code>stop(vid);
 delete(vid);</code>
+==== Camera control (Matlab on Linux) ====
+   * In linux version of matlab the driver for the camera doe's not work properly, therefore we have added simple function to grab an image (**flygrab**).
+   * First add path to the flygrab directory:
+<code matlab>
+addpath('/opt/flygrab');
+</code>
+   * Then grab an image:
+<code matlab>
+img = flygrab();
+</code>
+   * In order to configuration the camera use the **FlyCap2** utility.
+==== Camera control (ROS) ====
+Driver documentation: [[http://wiki.ros.org/pointgrey_camera_driver|pointgray_camera_driver]]
+Start camera driver nodes:
+<code bash>
+# Assuming that the B3B33ROB ROS Enviroment was properly sourced i.e. :
+source /opt/ros/b3b33rob
+# just camera driver
+$ roslaunch b3b33rob_ros camera.launch
+# or camera with robot
+$ roslaunch b3b33rob_ros start_rv6sdl.launch camera:=true
+$ roslaunch b3b33rob_ros start_rv6s.launch camera:=true
+$ roslaunch b3b33rob_ros start_fake_rv6sdl.launch camera:=true
+$ roslaunch b3b33rob_ros start_fake_rv6sdl.launch camera:=true
+</code>
+Display camera stream:
+<code bash>
+$ rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/image_color
+</code>
+   * In order to configuration the camera use the **FlyCap2** utility.
 ==== Parameter Settings ====
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   * Picture degradation (spillage) when using different image resolution.
+==== Parameter Settings (flycap2) ====
+   * In terminal run:
+<code shell>
+$ flycap2
+<code>