do I need to run other ROS nodes separately besides this program

[Alex-czh]

Hello, do I need to run other ROS nodes separately besides this program? What does it have to do to directly control the real camera and the manipulator arm? thanks.

[youkenhou]

The script kinect2grasp.py only uses the pointcloud to generate potential grasps and sends all the grasps into network to get good ones. The good grasps are published as a ros topic. So another node to read the grasp msg and control the arm is neccessary. However now I'm stuck at kinect2grasp.py. If you manage to run it successfully, please tell me how.

[lianghongzhuo]

The script kinect2grasp.py will read point cloud from a ros topic. then evaluate it. There is no arm motion involved. You can try moveit if you want to plan an arm motion.