Only released in EOL distros:
Package Summary
The industrial_extrinsic_cal package
- Maintainer: clewis <clewis AT swri DOT org>
- Author: Chris Lewis <clewis AT swri DOT org>
- License: Apache
- Source: git https://github.com/ros-industrial/industrial_calibration.git (branch: hydro)
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EXPERIMENTAL: This status indicates that this software is experimental code at best. There are known issues and missing functionality. The APIs are completely unstable and likely to change. Use in production systems is not recommended. All code starts at this level. For more information see the ROS-Industrial software status page. |
Contents
Overview
The industrial_extrinsic_cal package provides a generic tool for calibrating sensors to a known reference frame. It is relevant to anyone using a system in which the relative position(extrinsics) of multiple pieces of equipment must be determined. Common equipment examples include positioning systems(i.e. robots, cartesian gantries), measurement/sensor systems (i.e. camera(s), laser scanner/trackers, radio) and fixturing(accurately produced parts for referencing objects of interest).
The calibration uses Google's Ceres solver to perform bundle adjustment or minimize the reprojection error of the camera to the known points. The Ceres software problem and solver are generic and the cost functions contain the definition of the error to minimize.
Installation
UPDATE 20170922 For ROS indigo, the following ceres installation is now not necessary now that this pull request is merged. Please report if you see any issue regarding this.
The industrial extrinsic calibration package depends on the google Ceres Solver. The steps below walk through a minimal installation of Ceres on Ubuntu 14.04 as required for this package, more detailed instructions or different Ubuntu versions can be found here. NOTE: These instructions download and install dependencies from your home directory. Once installed, these tarballs and directories can be deleted.
- Install gflags
cd wget https://github.com/gflags/gflags/archive/v2.1.2.zip unzip v2.1.2.zip && rm v2.1.2.zip cd gflags-2.1.2 && mkdir build && cd build cmake .. -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON make sudo make install
- Install glog
cd wget https://github.com/google/glog/archive/v0.3.4.zip unzip v0.3.4.zip && rm v0.3.4.zip cd glog-0.3.4/ ./configure --with-gflags=/usr/local/ make sudo make install
- Install Ceres
cd wget https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/archive/1.11.0.zip unzip 1.11.0.zip && rm 1.11.0.zip cd ceres-solver-1.11.0 mkdir build && cd build cmake .. make sudo make install
Install industrial_extrinisc_cal from source.
Tutorials
Examples can be found in the tutorials.
Design
Detailed design info can be found in this presentation presented at ROSCon 2014.
