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Any packages for graph plot?

asked 2013-07-22 06:11:02 -0600

chris_chris
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updated 2014-01-28 17:17:21 -0600

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Hello everybody,

Is there any packages available with ROS for 2d or 3d plotting of mathematical data (if possible, something similar to matlab plotting) ?

NOTE: I need to access the c++ output data dynamically for plotting.

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answered 2013-07-22 11:41:39 -0600

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ROS has basic plotting abilities thanks to rxplot in http://www.ros.org/wiki/rxplot and rqt_plot here http://ros.org/wiki/rqt_plot but you can always write your 'plotting' node in python and then use the excellent matplotlib which can do practically everything matlab can in terms of plotting.

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But 'matplotlib' is in python. I need to access the c++ outputs dynamically. and Is there any with c++ ? or Is it possible to use matplotlib for accessing c++ outputs dynamically ?

chris_chris ( 2013-07-22 23:56:44 -0600 )edit

You can also 'program' `gnuplot` inside a c++ code. But resort to this only when the `rqt` and `rxplot` utils do not suffice.

makokal ( 2013-07-23 09:25:22 -0600 )edit

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answered 2013-07-23 00:06:41 -0600

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@chris_chris do you need GUI tools OR API?

*_plot @makokal suggested work for the former purpose.

Decoding the source code of rqt_plot will give you necessary API info for the latter.

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I need anything such that I should plot values of various variables while the program is running i.e)dynamically.

chris_chris ( 2013-07-26 03:49:32 -0600 )edit

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