Step 5 – Building and running an example

After building the package using catkin_make, we can run the node using the following command:

  1. Launch the webcam driver:
    $ roslaunch usb_cam usb_cam-test.launch
  1. Run the cv_bridge sample node:
    $ rosrun cv_bridge_tutorial_pkg sample_cv_bridge_node
  1. If everything works fine, we will get two windows, as shown in the following image. The first window shows the raw image and the second is the processed edge-detected-image:
Figure 6: Raw image and edge-detected-image

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