Astra is a powerful and reliable stand-alone 3D camera featuring Orbbec's proprietary 3D microchip and VGA color.
Astra has been developed to be highly compatible with existing OpenNI applications. Astra has a range of 0.4 to 8 meters.
Features
- General purpose 3D camera;
- Longer sensing range;
- Alternative for Xtion/Kinect/Carmine 1.08
- Fully compatible with OpenNI
Applications
- Gesture control
- Interactive Systems
- Retail
- Robotics
- 3D scanning
- Point Cloud development
- VR/AR (Object tracking
| Model Nº | ORBBEC |
| Size | 160 x 30 x 40 (mm) |
| Weight | 300 g |
| Range | 0.4 -8 m |
| Depth Image Size | 640*480 (VGA) 16bit @30 FPS |
| RGB Image Size | 1280*960 @10FPS |
| Field of View | 60º horiz. x 49.5 º vert. (73º diagonal) |
| Microphones | 2 |
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Android |
Official packages:
- http://wiki.ros.org/astra_camera
- Sources: https://github.com/tfoote/ros_astra_camera.git
- Supported versions: Indigo, Kinetic and Melodic
- http://wiki.ros.org/astra_launch
- Sources: https://github.com/tfoote/ros_astra_launch.git
- Supported versions: Indigo, Kinetic and Melodic
