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Kinect crashes on invoking command "rosbag record -a"

I initially had a problem of kinect not starting up again from the following command "roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch" after it had crashed once. To that problem i found a solution to ...
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Do kinect topics depend on drivers

I happened to have downloaded a bag file of Kinect which was recorded with the help of libfreenect driver. If i develop a node which is for kinect and that uses Openni driver. Will there be ...
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BUG? topic subscription shutdown() fails to shutdown

Hi, The scenerio is we are trying to do custom kinect calibration and we need both raw IR and RGB image. The kinect/asus hardware do not support stream ir and rgb at the same time, so we need to ...
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pcl and openni_launch question

Hello all, I am trying to get my Kinect working with the pcl tutorial programs on the ros.org/wiki/pcl/Tutorials website. I have everything build and when I go to run the program I use these commands. ...
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why openni packages are outdated?

Hi, Recently i have immigrated to ubuntu 12.04 for installing ros-fuerte and also using up to date versions of openni packages! but i saw that they are still outdated! the current release of openni is ...
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kinect /scan data format

just a quick question, does the scan (http://www.ros.org/doc/api/sensor_msgs/html/msg/LaserScan.html) topic's ranges array hold 360 values each representing a degree in a circle for the microsoft ...
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Kinect roslaunch error messages

There have been several posts about this, but none seem to be fully resolved. (I am using ROS fuerte on Ubuntu 12.04) I tried to install the openNI drivers (using sudo apt-get, rosdep install, and ...
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openni_launch works only the first time

I am using fuerte on Ubuntu 12.04 with a Kinect. I have noted that openni_launch works only the first time. When it works, on the terminal I have: ...
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openni_launch problems with kinect and asus, electric and fuerte

I've tried getting openni_launch to work on Ubuntu 12.04 with fuerte and a Kinect, also on 11.10 with electric and Kinect and on 11.10 with an Asus Xtion Pro Live and now on a second computer running ...
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programming with kinect rgb

I'm writing a program which requires an rgb image from the kinect, ideally I want something like the horizontal slice like the /scan topic only with RGB points instead of depth points but it's not ...
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kinect raw data

I am using ubuntu 11.10 and openni. My question is how to convert the raw depth data to XYZ point? (x,y,d) coordinate of (pixel, pixel, mm) I want to know how to convert it to (mm, mm, mm) Originally ...
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openni ros-fuerte ubuntu 12.04 anyone?

Hi all. I have posted a couple of questions already considering execution of roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch in ubuntu 12.04 under ros fuerte. It produces ...
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openni_tracker Timeout Error in Fuerte (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

Hi all, I'm trying to execute the openni_tracker node in ROS Fuerte running a Ubuntu 12.04 fresh install. When I launch the node I get the following error (full log at the end of the question): ...
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Using rgbdslam with .oni files

Hello, I needed to use the rgbd slam package with .oni files. After some hours of searching, I couldn't find any real help for this. Finally I figured out how to do it and it turned out that it's ...
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Connecting two Kinects simultaneously using Fuerte?

I am running ROS Fuerte on Linux, and right now I can run one Kinect using roslaunch openni_launch openni.launch, and use rviz to see both the depth and RGB cameras. How can I get a second Kinect to ...
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weird behavior of rviz ros-fuerte

Hi all! This question is heavily related to this one. After tons of magic I've been finally able to read depth information from my ASUS kinect. So, I have to open 1 terminal, print ...
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Openni_launch failure / "cannot launch node of type [nodelet/nodelet]"

Hi guys, I run Ubuntu 11.10 plus ROS electric (installed from source) on an Pandaboard ES and try to use a Kinectsensor with this setup. But when I fire up following command $ roslaunch openni_launch ...
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Asus Xtion camera calibration fails to start

Hi, I'm trying to calibrate Asus Xtion following tutorial in openni_launch package. I'm getting following error: ...
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Rosinstall fails for openni drivers

I use Ubuntu 11.10 and I try to communicate to a Kinect sensor (the kinect is connected). I followed the instruction from http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_kinect and get some problems. ...
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not install the Openni drivers onto my system

hg clone https://kforge.ros.org/openni/drivers cd drivers make then, not installed and displayed it ...
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make install fails for openni-drivers

Hello I use Ubuntu 11.04 and I try to communicate to a Kinect sensor (the kinect is not connected). I followed the instruction from http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_kinect and get some problems. In 1. ...
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rgbdslam doesn't work if it has launched before

I am following the instructions and compile all the packages successfully. Then I excute roslaunch rgbdslam kinect+rgbdslam.launch It works just fine (a window pops out and show the RGB image and the ...
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Openni_Launch on Lion with Xtion

I'm just returning to ROS after some time. How do you get openni_launch installed in OSX? I've been able to consistently get ROS Fuerte installed on Lion. using: http://ros.org/wiki/fuerte/...
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Problem running openni_launch on ros fuerte with Xtion pro live

Hi ros user! I try to use a Asus Xtion pro live with ROs Fuerte and openni_launch. I have made a lot of test but I have not been able to make it work. It is always the same thing I have got this Error ...
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failed to load openni_kinect libraries

I'm using my turtlebot for the first time with electric. Every time I try to roslaunch anything that uses packages from the openni_kinect stack (follower.launch, openni.launch, etc), I get a bunch of ...
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simulating openni in fuerte

I've recently made the shift to ROS fuerte and have been in the process of upgrading my simulated models and sensors. Our robot model can use both the XBOX Kinect and the ASUS Xtion. I can bring up ...
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openni_tracker on ubuntu11.10 on VMware

Hello. I'm very new to linux and ros. I have installed ubuntu 11.10 on VMware. I have installed ROS following guide from here "http://www.ros.org/wiki/electric/Installation/Ubuntu" and ...
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Running Ros Openni Tracker from bag files

Hi, I have a bag file which has /camera/depth_registered/image_rect_raw. I was thinking to receive data and create depth nodes from this topic in ros openni tracker rather than the live data from the ...
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No message recieved from pcl/NormalEstimation nodelet

Hello, I'm trying to run simple example with kinect and normal estimation, I'm running a simple launch file: ...
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doubts about interpreting x,y,z from kinect

Hello everyone I'm implementing a stair detection algorithm using kinect. My understanding is that in ros and openni the y and z of 3D points are reversed. so point.y indicates depth, and point.z ...
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Openni launch process has died

When running : roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch I face the following problem: [ INFO] [1335797962.331964828]: [/openni_node1] Number devices connected: 1 ...
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how to setup a kinect available environment

Hi, I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and ROS electric. To make a Kinect available, All I have to do is just "sudo apt-get install ros-electric-openni-kinect", is it? About OpenCV, I've must install ...
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build failed for openni driver

hi i have kinect camera and i'm trying to install it in my laptop with 32-bit ubuntu 11.10 and ros electric.so i connected the usb cable from kinect to laptop and started with the steps given in ...
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How to use multiple kinects on the same USB 2.0 bus

Hi everybody, I got two questions about kinect driver (OpenNI,freeKinect under Ubuntu or even Kinect SDK under windows, what ever works. Kinect here refers to Kinect for Xbox, not Kinect for windows ...
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K4W with openni

I've been looking into using Kinect for Windows on Ubuntu. However, it seems not to be possible with openni at the moment. I found an interesting post regarding libfreenect, where they apparently did ...
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Installation Error (Openni Driver)

I followed the instruction steps on http://ros.org/wiki/openni_kinect with: ...
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openni_kinect on armv7l install from source error

Hey gang, Running Electric on a PandaboardES with a stripped down Ubuntu 11.10 OS on it. The Pandaboard is an ARMv7l architecture. Electric installed just fine from source. Now I'm trying to get ...
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Setting calibration for openni Kinect - running into max value

I'm trying to calibrate my Kinect so that the RGB and depth data overlap. I am running openni_launch and using dynamic_reconfigure_gui to tweak the values. I have a good value for depth_ir_offset_x (-...
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Cannot launch openni_camera: No devices connected (ROS electric)

I'm using Linux Mint 12 x64 (based on Ubuntu Oneiric) and ROS electric. I installed the openni_kinect stack using the instructions here: http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_kinect sudo apt-get install ros-...
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kinect in Ubuntu-VMware workstation question

The command runs in Ubuntu-VMware workstation,and I have installed the driver of openni_kinect in ubuntu.But the results is 'no devices connected',so how can I do next? Thank you very much! ocean@...
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ASUS Xtion and Open NI documentation

I have come across lot of documentation and books on Microsoft Kinect; Beginning Kinect Programming with the Microsoft Kinect SDK Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User ...
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Install OpenNI driver to ubuntu

Hello, I am trying to install OpenNI driver to my ubuntu 11.10 but I am getting this error. Anyone knows the solutions for this? PrimeSense OpenNI Redist * ...
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ONI to BAG and BAG to ONI

Has somebody written a conversion method for this? Originally posted by KoenBuys on ROS Answers with karma: 2314 on 2012-03-22 Post score: 2 Original comments Comment by Kevin on 2012-03-24: Can you ...
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openni kinect driver CPU usage

Hi there, I'm using the Kinect with a Turtlebot. I'm finding that the openni driver which I need to run is very CPU intensive. I've been looking for a way to decrease CPU usage by decreasing the ...
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How to use mit-ros-pkg without ni?

I try to use mit-ros-pkg (finger detection/minority report interface) under Ubunt11.10, ROS Electric, but it won't work. Since this package said in its doc that it would work under Ubuntu 10.04, ROS ...
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Aggregating Point Clouds in Fixed Frame

I'm working on a project where I'd like to aggregate/concatenate several filtered point clouds produced by a Kinect into a single point cloud in the fixed (/map) frame. This is not for mapping ...
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OpenCV Error with openni_node.launch

Hi, I have a Kinect device, ROS Electric, and I installed the openni package with the ubuntu package ros-electric-openni-kinect. When I execute the launch file openni_camera/openni_node.launch, I get ...
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Using the OpenNI Kinect and the Nyko Zoom attatchment

I'm working on person tracking with the Microsoft Kinect and the Nyko Zoom attachment. I need accurate distance estimates to/between each person and, of course, the Zoom warps the Kinect image. Thus,...
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Updating OpenNI and NITE version

I'm using the Kinect for person tracking, and I have encountered a bug where OpenNI causes a segmentation fault when many objects move in/out of the frame. I did some research and it looks like the ...
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openni tracker not producing any output

I am trying to run the openni_tracker node to duplicate the results from the wiki http://www.ros.org/wiki/openni_tracker although the openni_tracker node just isn't producing any output. Here is a ...
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