Ed Venator

Ed Venator

I build robots.

Making The Kinect Work in ROS

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(This may be specific to my laptop.)

For reference, see here: http://answers.ros.org/question/33622/openni_launch-not-working-in-fuerte-ubuntu-precise-1204/

tl;dr: Run this before you open the kinect driver: pkill XnSensorServer; XnSensorServer

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