FLIR Camera

This service operates an FLIR camera. The following are the different types of FLIR cameras that have been tested and used with catkit2 so far:

Teledyne FLIR BFS-U3-63S4M-C

For further documentation, see:

image format control

Note that using FLIR cameras requires a manual installation of drivers from flir.com.

Configuration

camera1:
    service_type: flir_camera
    simulated_service_type: camera_sim
    requires_safety: false

    serial_number: 000000
    width: 312
    height: 312
    offset_x: 100
    offset_y: 134
    adc_bit_depth: 12bit
    pixel_format: mono12p
    well_depth_percentage_target: 0.65
    exposure_time: 1000
    gain: 0
    env:
        KMP_DUPLICATE_LIB_OK: TRUE

Properties

exposure_time: Exposure time (in microseconds) of the camera.

gain: Gain of the camera.

width: The width of the camera frames.

height: The height of the camera frames.

offset_x: The x offset of the camera frames on the sensor.

offset_y: The y offset of the camera frames on the sensor.

sensor_width: The width of the sensor.

sensor_height: The height of the sensor.

pixel_format: Format of the pixel provided by the camera.

adc_bit_depth: Fixed bit output of the camera ADC.

acquisition_frame_rate: Frame rate of the acquisition (if enabled, see below).

acquisition_frame_rate_enable: Whether to allow manual control of the acquisition frame rate.

device_name: The name of the camera.

Commands

start_acquisition(): This starts the acquisition of images from the camera.

end_acquisition(): This ends the acquisition of images from the camera.

Datastreams

temperature: The temperature (in Celsius) as measured by the camera.

images: The images acquired by the camera.

is_acquiring: Whether the camera is currently acquiring images.