Does Isaac ROS support Orbbec Astra Pro Plus depth camera?

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I’m trying to install Isaac ROS on Xavier NX to use nvblox, and it seems that Orbbec is one of NVIDIA’s partners: Nvidia Collaboration - ORBBEC - 3D Vision for a 3D World.
However, the Orbbec Astra Pro Plus camera module was not on that page.
As this topic(Best 3D camera for Isaac ROS2) mentions about the same camera module I own 4 yrs ago, which had no support then, I wonder:
1.Does Isaac ROS support this model of depth camera?(Orbbec Astra Pro Plus)
2.How do I know if it is supported by Isaac ROS or not before I purchase any hardware product (like another depth camera)? Do we have a list of that?

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Hi @patzer0

Welcome to the Isaac ROS forum!
You’ve made a great post, and I’d like to provide some clarification for everyone.

Isaac ROS supports all cameras designed to run on ROS 2 Humble (as of the time I’m writing this post).
The most important thing for each camera is to have the proper outputs required by the Isaac ROS node. In some specific cases, the camera needs to provide specific outputs at a minimum frequency. An example of this is the Isaac ROS vslam Camera requirements.
We also offer examples or Docker images that are ready to run for popular cameras, like the realsense or the Hawk, with ready-to-run examples available at Sensors Setup — isaac_ros_docs documentation. Additionally, we provide benchmarks for evaluating the performance of your setup for these cameras.

However, this doesn’t mean that other cameras won’t work with Isaac ROS. You can build your own setup and run Isaac ROS for your camera. In this case, we haven’t tested the performance for this specific camera.

Let me now reply to your questions:

If the documentation does not contradict me, the Orbbec Astra provides depth output at Orbbec SDK ROS2 Wrapper | OrbbecSDK_ROS2

Unfortunately, we cannot test all cameras on the market, but the cameras we have tested and proven examples are listed on this page: Sensors Setup — isaac_ros_docs documentation

I hope my reply helped you.

Best,
Raffaello

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Thank a lot!

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