For more information on Udev you can look into the following sources: 1 2.īefore plugging in the camera to the USB let’s check the output of: ls /dev/video * Udev is a device manager for Linux kernel. Setting up the camera in Ubuntu Udev rulesįirst thing we want to do when adding a camera to the system is to add the udev rules for it. If you would like to dig even more into the topic then you can read the USB Video Class document set from USB.org. If you would like to know more about UVC then Microsoft created a nice description of UVC driver. UVC (USB Video Class) is a class of USB devices that support streaming of videos. Completion of ROS beginner and intermediate tutorials from ROS wiki.A UVC enabled camera (a standard webcam should do).

The tutorial below assumes the following tools: In the process we will learn something about udev rules and nodelets.

In this intermediate tutorial we will look into using libuvc_camera package with a simple USB camera. ROS web tutorial part 2 - working with cameras