Re: [ros-users] Should I write plugins for rqt or rviz?

If you want to build something like the ground station functionality ( http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/MPGCS ), I would suggest writing two plugins for RQT: one to visualize GPS data on a map, probably using the Google Maps API to provide satellite imagery, and another to display a roll/pitch/yaw vector as a simulated attitude indicator.

-Austin

On Nov 23, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Christopher Berner <christopherberner@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Austin,
>
> I'm looking to build something like MissionPlanner (http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Mission), since it's Windows only and even in mono doesn't run that well. I looked around at what rviz could do, but it didn't seem to do controls and displays like that. I'll take a look at rat too, but mainly I want to visualize the roll/pitch and the GPS data on a map.
>
> Thanks!
> Christopher
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Austin Hendrix <legotown@aol.com> wrote:
> How you visualize your data is heavily dependent on what you want to visualize and how you want to display it.
>
> If you have data that's spatial or 3D, such as laser scan data or a 3D direction vector, visualizing that data in rviz is probably better. If your data is better represented as one or two variables vs time, rat may be a better visualization tool.
>
> I would look carefully at the available tools before deciding that you need to write a plugin. Rviz can already visualize direction vectors, 3D transforms, and a number of different types of sensor data. RQT already has plugins for graphing data against time, replacing the older rxplot tool.
>
> -Austin
>
> On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Christopher Berner <christopherberner@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm writing some GUI plugins for visualizing data coming off an Arducopter, and after looking through the docs and release announcement for Groovy, I'm not sure which library I should be writing plugins for. Is it recommended that plugins be written for rqt or rviz? And are there any tutorials for doing so, for the upcoming Groovy release?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Christopher
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