navganti / front_end_validation

Validation tools to publish front-end visual tracking data. To be used in conjunction with [libwave](www.github.com/wavelab/libwave)

front_end_validation

Validation tools to publish front-end visual tracking data. To be used in conjunction with libwave.

Installation

Dependencies

This module depends on libwave. Please follow the instructions to install libwave, found on the project's Github page.

In addition to this, this code in this repository uses ROS, and has only been tested using ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04. If ROS is not installed on your machine, please follow the instructions at the ROS wiki.

Build

Clone this repository to your machine git clone https://github.com/navganti/front_end_validation.git or git clone [e-mail]:navganti/front_end_validation.git.

Navigate to your Catkin workspace source folder (typically ~/catkin_ws/src), and link the respository.

cd /path/to/catkin_ws/src
ln -s /path/to/front_end_validation

Build using catkin_build.

Usage

In order to run the validation tool, use the ROS launch file, and specify the topic parameter. This topic should be publishing the images that you wish to run through the validator.

roslaunch offline_validation offline_validator.launch topic:=/image/topic

Visualization

Open a new terminal window, and launch rqt. The config folder within the front_end_validation contains RQT perspective files to illustrate the validation data.