ZED Setup Guide

ZED Setup Guide

This page guides you through the setting up of ZED Stereo Camera.

1. Install the dependencies:

   a. Check the correct driver for your GPU and install the compatible one. Follow the steps given at NVIDIA Display Driver (current version is nvidia-387).

   b. NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 9.0. If you have an earlier version, it is better to uninstall it first (since it takes up a lot of space and may not replaced by the newer version) using sudo apt-get --purge remove cuda(or sudo apt-get --purge remove cuda-8 this-0 if you installed it that way). Follow this guide upto step 2.6, then download network.deb and follow the instructions on the same page. Then go back to the guide and perform step 7.1.

   c. sudo apt-get install build-essential (You probably have this already.)

2. Install the ZED SDK:

   a. Download ZED_SDK.run file using curl -o ZED_SDK_Linux_Ubuntu16_v2.2.1.run "https://cdn.stereolabs.com/developers/downloads/ZED_SDK_Linux_Ubuntu16_v2.2.1.run". If the command gives SSL error (due to ironport proxy), retry until it downloads.

   b. Make the downloaded file executable by running sudo chmod +x ZED_SDK_Linux_Ubuntu16_v2.2.1.run.

   c. Connect the camera to your system via a USB 3.0 port (so that it can detect the serial number during installation to download the calibration file).

   d. Run the executable ./ZED_SDK_Linux_Ubuntu16_v2.2.1.run.

   e. If you face proxy issues while downloading the calibration, just download and copy this file to this path: /usr/local/zed/settings

3. Install the ZED ROS Wrapper:

   a. Follow the installation instructions (section 2.3) on this page.

   b. Run this command to check if everything is working fine: roslaunch zed_wrapper display.launch

   c. Make sure the video runs at HD720p@60fps at least.