Loading software for the mission

Part of the software that needed to perform this cooperative mission has been installed in previous chapters:

• The ROS software installation of the ros-indigo-desktop-full configuration is described in the Installing and launching ROS section of Chapter 1, Getting Started with ROS

• The installation of Crazyflie ROS software is described in the Loading Crazyflie ROS software section of Chapter 7, Making a Robot Fly

Software for the Kinect v2 to interface with ROS requires the installation of two items: libfreenect2 and iai_kinect2. The following sections provide the details of these installations.

Installing libfreenect2

The libfreenect2 software provides an open-source driver for Kinect v2. This driver does not support the Kinect for Xbox 360 or Xbox One. Libfreenect2 provides for the image transfer of RGB and depth as well as the combined registration of RGB and depth. Image registration aligns the color and depth images for the same scene into one reference image...