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April Tag Tracking with ROS

Paul edited this page Oct 5, 2017 · 2 revisions

We are using the apriltags_ros library to track Roombas until our vision-based Roomba tracking is fully implemented.

Usage Instructions:

  1. Clone the iarc-2017 repository. The libraries folder contains a copy of the https://github.com/RIVeR-Lab/apriltags_ros.git repository.
  2. Edit the file apriltags_ros/apriltags_ros/launch/example.launch. Change the line so that the "to" argument refers to the topic with drone's video stream.
  3. Run the command catkin_make from inside your catkin workspace.
  4. Run the command roslaunch apriltags_ros example.launch to start the rosnode.
  5. Run the command rosrun rqt_gui rqt_gui, select Plugins > Visualization > Image View, and set the topic to /tag_detections_image to see the output.
  6. The topic /tag_detections_pose contains a geometry_msgs/PoseArray of all visible April tags.
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