camera_aravis2
- Software
- Perception
- Driver or SDK
A ROS 2 camera driver for GenICam-based GigEVision and USB3Vision industrial cameras, built on the Aravis library. It is a successor to camera_aravis.
Made by Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany (checked on github.com/FraunhoferIOSB (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/FraunhoferIOSB/camera_aravis2 (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 4cc5bda (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit 4cc5bda (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides two driver nodes: camera_driver_gv for GigEVision cameras and camera_driver_uv for USB3Vision cameras.
- Configures camera features through GenICam Standard Feature Naming Convention parameters in ROS 2 launch files.
- Includes a camera_finder node to discover connected cameras and their GUIDs or IP addresses.
- Includes a camera_xml_exporter node to extract a camera's GenICam XML description to a file.
- Offers dynamic parameter reconfiguration and a periodic diagnostics topic, configured through YAML files.
- Provides a calculate_white_balance_once service to trigger one-shot white balance computation.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 4cc5bda.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 11 Aug 2026 on devel
- Latest release
- None published on GitHub
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
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