Something like rosbag but it keeps a rolling buffer and saves a file only when you want to

asked 2019-10-08 19:02:45 -0500

Jari
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Is there any existing tool that will record a bag file but instead of continuing to record would instead discard any data past some set time threshold (so if the threshold is 1 hour, at any given point it has the data up to one hour before the current time). Ideally this would allow one to call a service to save this data into a proper bagfile which can be then used for deeper investigation.

The usecase in mind is situations where some extraordinary event has happened to a robot (e.g. massive localization failure) and a bag file of data leading up to the event would be useful for fixing whatever bug may have caused the problem. I have thoughts about how something like this could be made but want to check if maybe something already exists.

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answered 2019-10-08 19:13:15 -0500

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For ROS 1, there is a pull request adding a rosbag snapshot command that sounds like it does what you'd like. Maybe it will take less time to pick it up than to start from scratch?

https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/pull/...

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Thank you!

Jari ( 2019-10-08 19:38:42 -0500 )edit

The snapshot command is good, but personally I've been eying something like strands-project/mongodb_store#245 (MongoDB with a "capped collection", which would essentially be a "rolling buffer").

gvdhoorn ( 2019-10-09 03:16:12 -0500 )edit

There is also the --split and --max-splits option for rosbag record. I usually set the split to 1m and the max splits to 2 or 3. This has the effect of saving the last 2-3 minutes of topics. Recording to a tmpfs partition removes the disk I/O performance hit. I also found record_ros to programmatically start and stop rosbag recordings. You can modify record_ros to provide more options such as split and max_splits.

jeremya ( 2019-10-12 10:37:29 -0500 )edit

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answered 2021-08-21 08:42:00 -0500

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For ROS2 you could use this RMW rmw_ecal and then make use of the powerful recording tools (GUI and command line) from the eCAL project. There are many options like prebuffering, splitting, synchronized decentral recording over multiple host and so on ...

Introduction can be found here and a detailed documentation here. We use that for massive, synchronized data recording in the area of autonomous driving.

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