Lava Peripherals

Lava-peripherals is a library to the open-source framework Lava that adds support for peripheral devices such as cameras or robotic actuators. Lava enables users to develop neuro-inspired applications and map them to neuromorphic hardware. It provides tools and abstractions to develop applications that fully exploit the principles of neural computation.

Content

• Dynamic Vision Cameras
  • Metavision
  • Inivation (coming soon)
• Intel RealSense cameras
• Robotic actuators (to be planned)

Dependencies

Lava-peripherals currently requires Linux and does not support Windows or MacOS.

Third-party dependencies

Lava-peripherals is flexible with the dependency on the libraries for the peripheral hardware and requires only those to be installed which are used.

PropheseeCamera

The PropheseeCamera Process, requires the metavision-sdk v4.0.0 or newer to be installed.

RealSense

The RealSense Process, requires the Intel® RealSense™ SDK v2.0 and the Python wrapper pyrealsense2 to be installed.

Python dependencies

Lava-peripherals requires Python version 3.9 or newer; for installation either pip or poetry is required.

Installation

Linux

cd $HOME
curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
git clone https://github.com/lava-nc/lava-peripherals.git
cd lava-peripherals
poetry config virtualenvs.in-project true
poetry install

# in order to find metavision-sdk
sed -i "s/include-system-site-packages\ =\ false/include-system-site-packages\ =\ true/g" .venv/pyvenv.cfg

source .venv/bin/activate
pytest

## See FAQ for more info: https://github.com/lava-nc/lava/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ)#install

More information

For more information visit http://lava-nc.org or the Lava-nc on GitHub. ​

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