[IGSTK-Developers] Getting Aurora Tracker working

[Patrick Cheng]

Hi Rafael,

The error message you got it's very strange. It seems like it failed to 
read the xml file. Can you try load one of the example xml comes with 
the IGSTK source code and tell us what happens?

${IGSTK_BIN}/Data/TrackerConfiguration/auroraConfiguration.xml

Patrick

On 6/10/2010 11:31 PM, Rafael Palomar wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks for your suggestion, but I have already tried these steps and I
> get the same results.
>
> I hope there is someone experienced in Aurora that could help me :).
>
> Best regards,
> Rafael Palomar.
>
> 2010/6/10 Anka Kochanowska <anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca
> <mailto:anka at bic.mni.mcgill.ca>>
>
>     Hi!
>     I do not do Aurora, so my experiens is not sufficient. But, you have
>     to configure Aurora, not only serial port.
>     this should help a little:
>
>     http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit/Navigation-with-Aurora
>     under "steps" link you have some tools defined.
>
>     Anka
>
>
>     On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Rafael Palomar
>     <rafaelpalomaravalos at gmail.com
>     <mailto:rafaelpalomaravalos at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hello again,
>
>         I am trying to get the Aurora Tracker working. To be more
>         precise I try to launch the OpenIGTLinkTrackerBroadcasting
>         Example included as part of the igstk4.2, getting the following
>         output:
>
>         -----------------------------
>         terminate called after throwing an instance of
>         'igstk::TrackerConfigurationXMLFileReaderBase::UnexpectedTrackerTypeException'
>            what():  std::exception
>         Aborted
>         -----------------------------
>
>         The CMake options relevants to Aurora that I have used are the
>         following:
>
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_0              /dev/ttyUSB0
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_1              /dev/ttyS1
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_2              /dev/ttyS2
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_3              /dev/ttyS3
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_4              /dev/ttyS4
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_5              /dev/ttyS5
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_6              /dev/ttyS6
>           IGSTK_SERIAL_PORT_7              /dev/ttyS7
>           IGSTK_TEST_AURORA_ATTACHED       ON
>           IGSTK_TEST_AURORA_PORT_NUMBER    0
>
>         In the tracker I have set up tools in ports 1 and 2 (the two
>         first). The content of the configuration file for the
>         OpenIGTLinkTrackerBroadcasting Example is the following:
>
>         <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>         <tracking_system type = "aurora">
>         <refresh_rate> 20 </refresh_rate>
>         <serial_communication>
>         <com_port>0</com_port>
>         <baud_rate>115200</baud_rate>
>         <data_bits>8</data_bits>
>         <parity>N</parity>
>         <stop_bits>1</stop_bits>
>         <hand_shake>0</hand_shake>
>         </serial_communication>
>         </tracking_system>
>
>         Any Idea?
>
>         Thanks in advance.
>
>         Best Regards,
>         Rafael Palomar
>
>
>
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