Similar to this question, is there a way to plot the data field of a Float32MultiArray message type? I'm trying to show the FFT of a signal in real-time and I can't seem to find a straightforward method of implementing the visualization I've tried Plot juggler, rqt_plot amd rqt_multiplot and they don't seem to have the functionality
This is due the the *MultiArray data types being quite ambiguous. As you have to / can specify the MultiArrayLayout, you can put rather arbitrary data in there. The docs give an example for encoding an image using this data type. So there is no straightforward way to implement a visualization of this.
Also, all the tools you mention actually work on single value data and plot respective time series. Even though you can configure rqt_multiplot a little bit more, I don't think you are able to do that with this kind of message easily.
You'd have to create your own specific plotting display, I guess.
for anyone else who ends up here.....I did a hacky solution to this problem of visualizing uint16 multiarray topics by adding it to the already established graph_rviz_plugin.
https://github.com/flynneva/graph_rvi...
it was relatively straight forward, and could be enhanced with the other multi-array types as well IF your use case is similiar to mine where the multi-array was only one dimension, and I wanted to just use the size of the multi-array as the x-axis.
This looks quite good actually. I basically ended up converting my data to an image using opencv and then using an image topic to view it in Rviz. I'll see if I can play around with this and let you know how I get on. My use-case is quite similar. x axis is basically each FFT bin while y axis is the amplitude of each frequency bin
i dont have a float32multiarray topic to test on but I cleaned up my code a bit and tried adding in the other multiarray types. go ahead and try it out and let me know how it goes. https://github.com/flynneva/graph_rvi...
Asked: 2019-04-25 08:06:23 -0600
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