avt_vimba_camera

This repo contains a ROS2 driver for cameras manufactured by Allied Vision Technologies. The driver relies on libraries provided by AVT as part of their Vimba SDK.
This driver was ported from the ROS(1) driver at AutonomouStuff GitHub.

Building the driver

Driver can be built by ensuring the ROS2 image_common repo is installed, cloning this repository, then installing the Vimba SDK, and editing the CMakeLists.txt file to point to the SDK installation location (default: ./Vimba_4_1).
Then source your ROS2 installation and build as usual.
For example:

mkdir cam_drv; cd cam_drv
git clone https://github.com/<this-repo>/avt_vimba_camera.git
cd avt_vimba_camera
(copy the Vimba SDK to ./Vimba_4_1, or edit CMakeLists.txt to point to SDK location)
source (ros2 installation)
colcon build --symlink-install

The driver can then be run as a ros2 package/executable, with support for pre-loaded configuration parameters.
Such as:

ros2 run avt_vimba_camera mono_camera_node --ros-args --params-file ./config/mono_c1.yaml