ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

Interfacing Intel Real Sense camera with ROS

One of the new 3D depth sensors from Intel is Real Sense. The following link is the ROS interface of Intel Real Sense: https://github.com/BlazingForests/realsense_camera

Figure 11: Intel Real Sense

Before installing the ROS driver, we have to install the following packages for building the source code:

    $ sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libv4l-dev 

After installing, clone the ROS package to the src folder of catkin workspace:

    $ cd ~/catkin_ws/src
    $ git clone https://github.com/BlazingForests/realsense_camera.git
    $ catkin_make  

Launch the Real Sense camera driver and RViz using the following command: ...