RDP 037: Plotting ROS data using PlotJuggler with Davide Faconti

Today we are going to talk with Davide Faconti about his ROS tool Plotjuggler. This is the second time he is being at the podcast. On the previous interview, Davide talked about his packages for creating behavior trees easily in ROS.

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS.

I'm Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct.
Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to all those ROS developers that want to display the series of data provided by a ROS topic in order to debug complex robot behaviors.

And related to that subject, today we are going to talk with Davide Faconti. This is the second time he is being in the podcast. On the previous interview, Davide talked about his packages for creating behavior trees easily in ROS.

Davide is a fervent developer of tools for robotics. So this time, he is going to talk about another super useful tool that he has developed. It is called PlotJuggler. Let's learn with Davide what is PlotJuggler, how you can use and which are the best practices in order to get the most of it in ROS.

00:00 Introduction
03:30 What is PlotJuggler
04:31 Why create the PlotJuggler
05:14 What is the current status of the PlotJuggler
12:45 Compatible with ROS
14:40 PlotJuggler used for recording data
17:49 The integration with Rviz
19:56 User-Defined Transforms
22:05 Display the Position of the Robot and the Orientation
23:25 PlotJuggler Plugins
25:43 Summary

Selected quote:

"Plotjuggler is a simple application to visualize time series"

Davide Faconti

Related links:

Follow Davide on LinkedIn
Previous interview to Davide about Behavior Trees in ROS
Plotjuggler official web
Plotjuggler git
Vimeo videos of Plotjuggler demos
Darpa Robotics Challenge
IHMC team
PX4 for drones
The Robot Ignite Academy, our online academy that teaches you ROS in 5 days, including ROS2
The ROS Development Studio, our online platform to program ROS online only with a browser
The ROS Developers Podcast full-length tune.

* You can find all the episodes of the ROS Developers Podcast here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/category/ros_developers_podcast/

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