agrippa-stereocam

Camera toolkit for Lucid GigE Vision cameras. The primary target is the Lucid Phoenix PHD016S dual-head stereo camera, with monocular Lucid cameras (e.g. Triton TRT016S) supported for the non-stereo subcommands (list, connect, stream, single-shot capture). It covers camera discovery, capture, live preview, focus alignment, calibration workflows, and classical or neural depth preview.

Sensor topology (stereo vs mono) is auto-detected at camera open by probing the device’s available pixel formats — DualBayerRG8 advertises stereo, anything else falls back to mono. Subcommands that intrinsically need two eyes (depth-preview-*, depth-capture, focus, calibration-capture, --burst) reject mono cameras with a clear error.

Documentation now lives in the dedicated docs site:

• Repo docs: docs/index.md
• GitHub Pages site: https://agripparobotics.github.io/agrippa-stereocam/

What this repo provides

ag-cam-tools currently includes:

• list for GigE camera discovery
• connect for device inspection
• capture for stereo frame export
• stream for live preview, rectification, and AprilTag detection
• focus for manual lens alignment with live focus scoring
• calibration-capture for stereo dataset collection
• depth-preview-classical for rectified disparity with SGBM controls
• depth-preview-neural for ONNX-based stereo inference
• calibration-stash for storing calibration sessions on-camera

Build

Core dependencies:

• Aravis 0.8
• SDL2
• pkg-config

Optional dependencies:

• apriltag for AprilTag detection in stream or the vendored fallback in vendor/apriltag
• OpenCV 4 for the sgbm stereo backend
• ONNX Runtime for the onnx stereo backend

git submodule update --init --recursive
make
sudo make install

More detailed setup is in docs/getting-started/installation.md.

Quick start

ag-cam-tools list
ag-cam-tools connect -a 192.168.0.201
ag-cam-tools capture -a 192.168.0.201 -e png -o ./frames
ag-cam-tools stream -a 192.168.0.201 -A

For command-specific examples and options, use the CLI docs:

• docs/cli/overview.md
• docs/cli/capture.md
• docs/cli/stream.md
• docs/cli/focus.md
• docs/cli/calibration-stash.md

Calibration and backends

Offline calibration notebooks live under calibration/. ONNX export notebooks live under backends/.

• Calibration workflow: docs/workflows/calibration.md
• Bring-up guide: docs/workflows/bring-up.md
• IGEV++ backend setup: docs/backends/igev-setup.md

Testing

The repo has unit tests and hardware integration tests.

make test
make test-hw
make test-all

Detailed testing guidance is in docs/workflows/testing.md.

Shell completions

Bash and zsh completions are installed by make install.

source completions/ag-cam-tools.bash
source completions/ag-cam-tools.zsh

Hardware snapshot

Primary platform: Lucid Phoenix PHD 1.6 MP Dual Extended-Head (IMX273)

Parameter	Value
Baseline	40 mm
Lens focal length	3 mm
Sensor resolution	1440 x 1080 px per head
Pixel size	3.45 um
Interface	1000BASE-T (GigE Vision)
Power	PoE or 12-24 VDC

Also supported (non-stereo subcommands only): monocular Lucid GigE cameras such as the Triton TRT016S (1440 x 1080 single-sensor, BayerRG8). Detection is automatic via the camera’s advertised pixel formats; if the model whitelist needs to take over for unusual firmware, see the implementation in src/common.c:detect_sensor_mode.

Additional hardware notes live in docs/hardware/circuits.md.

Attribution

This project is licensed under Apache-2.0. Preserve NOTICE in redistributions and derivative works. Citation metadata is available in CITATION.cff.

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