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IAI Kinect2 for ROS2

Migration from ROS1. Original Repository: https://github.com/code-iai/iai_kinect2. this work is based on OpenCV4 version: https://github.com/paul-shuvo/iai_kinect2_opencv4.

Install:

  1. Install the ROS2 humble.
  2. Install libfreenect2.
  3. clone this repo to your workspace and build it
    cd ~/catkin_ws/src/
    git clone https://github.com/YuLiHN/kinect2_ros2
    cd kinect2_ros2
    rosdep install -r --from-paths .
    cd ~/catkin_ws
    colcon build

Note: if you have runtime error like this:

[kinect2_bridge-1] error while loading shared libraries: libfreenect2.so.0.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

you could establish a symbolic link in usr lib folder like:

sudo ln -s $PATH_TO_LIBFREENECT2/freenect2/lib/libfreenect2.so.0.2 /usr/lib/libfreenect2.so.0.2

Usage:

ros2 launch kinect2_bridge kinect2_bridge.launch.py

and visualize the results in rviz2

ros2 run rviz2 rviz2

Screenshots:

Tested on RTX 3060 mobile, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, ROS2 Humble. Here are some screenshots from the toolkit: rviz2 console

Fork and Pull:

This repo only contains kinect2_registration and kinect2_bridge, still have two packages to be completed.