chart recorder for ROS?

asked 2011-05-12 21:07:51 -0500

AndrewStraw
171 ●5 ●12 ●14

updated 2011-05-13 09:59:12 -0500

2254 ●37 ●46 ●57 http://hybrid.eecs.ber...

Any suggestions for strip chart recorder software for use when viewing live (and recorded) streams of timeseries data? Ideally, the software would have a nice GUI that allows one to zoom both vertically and horizontally and show multiple ROS topics simultaneously.

edit retag flag offensive close merge delete

add a comment

4

answered 2011-05-13 04:52:54 -0500

mjcarroll

6414 ●68 ●78 ●100 http://mjcarroll.io/

I think what you are looking for is rxplot.

This will produce a strip chart that updates for you while ROS is running. It can also be used with playback.

For pure playback, you can use rxbag. rxbag is also slightly more extensible than rxplot, and you can right plugins for visualizing any application specific data you may need.

edit flag offensive delete link

Comments

Actually I learned recently (over here: http://answers.ros.org/question/432/analyzing-ros-messages) that you can also use rxbag to plot topics at runtime, and not only when playing back bagfiles.

Patrick Bouffard ( 2011-05-13 09:57:19 -0500 )edit

Well that's just awesome. Today I Learned.