ROS Programming: Building Powerful Robots

The ROS Android camera application

The final application that we are going to check out is the Android-ROS camera application. This application will stream Android phone camera images over ROS topics. You can install the Camera Tutorial app on your Android device and try to connect to the ROS master. If the connection is successful, you will see the camera view open up on the mobile device.

Now, check the ROS PC, and you can visualize the camera topic from the phone. Here is the command to perform the visualization:

    $ rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/image _image_transport:=compressed

Figure 34: Android-ROS camera app