MultiSense ROS2 Driver

A port of the MultiSense ROS1 driver to ROS2

This driver was tested using Foxy Fitzroy. Earlier ROS2 distros are not supported

Notable Changes

• Replace dynamic reconfigure interface with ROS2 parameters
• Remove support for sensor firmware versions < 3.3
• Remove support for monocular and BCAM configurations
• Move custom messages to standalone multisense_msgs package
• Merge multisense_bringup and multisense_description into the multisense_ros package
• General cleanup and port to c++17 and gcc 9.3.0
• Update launch file to new ROS2 launch file format
• multisense_lib has LibMultiSense as a submodule

Build

source /opt/ros/<ros2_distro>/setup.bash
mkdir ros2_ws && cd ros2_ws
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/carnegierobotics/multisense_ros2 src
colcon build
source install/setup.bash

The launch file depends on xacro being installed. To install xacro execute the following command.

sudo apt install ros-<distro>-xacro ros-<distro>-tf2-geometry-msgs

If your release does not have a pre-built xacro package, you can build it manually alongside the multisense_ros2 driver.

Execute the following commands to build xacro from source. This assmes the workspace setup and clone instructions above were followed.

cd ros2_ws/src
git clone -b dashing-devel https://github.com/ros/xacro.git
cd ..
colcon build
source install/setup.bash

Launch

ros2 launch multisense_ros multisense_launch.py

For the full set of launch arguments use

ros2 launch multisense_ros multisense_launch.py -s