Sensor sync strategy

Hi Stereolab,

I want to know the sensor synchronization strategy you are using. I know inside the camera the IMU and RGb are hardware synced, is it synced through some internal clock or the CPU clock? I want to generate a PPS signal for other sensors connected to the jetson Orin, and I hope the camera and IMU can have some kind of similar mechanism to align to the PPS signal, is it possible?

Hi @Jiahe
what camera model?

2 zedx with AGX orin

Please read here:

External Sync is not supported on ZED Link Duo

Hi @Myzhar , thanks for providing the links. We are also aiming at getting good synchronisation between camera frames and IMU samples. Our hardware consists on Jetson Orin NX, Zed X One and ZED Link Mono.

When using Master mode - Trigger out is the trigger signal generated only when a new capture is made and the capture is sent to the Jetson or is it constantly generated even if no frame is actually captured? In the second scenario, do you have a suggested method to match the trigger pulse with the actual frame it is associated with? Thanks!

Hi @beniaminopozzan
Welcome to the Stereolabs community.

The trigger out is always synchronized with the latest available frame.
The trigger is constantly generated and the frequency changes if you open the camera with a different setting.

When you call the grab function all the information that you get with retrieve is associated with the latest trigger that you received.

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