[ros-users] data storage for recognition

Bhaskara Marthi bhaskara at willowgarage.com
Tue Aug 31 17:09:28 UTC 2010


There is the rossql package (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rossql).  It's
currently just a prototype, but already allows inserting and querying
arbitrary ros message types, and is slated for further development over the
next few months.
- Bhaskara

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Matei Ciocarlie <matei at willowgarage.com>wrote:

> Hi Ugo,
>
> The database_interface package that you found is what we are using
> internally for our database of objects for manipulation (also see the
> household_objects_database package, which uses this interface).
>
> A few weeks ago we had some discussion about database support going
> forward; the decision was that for "low-level" database integration,
> we might switch to an existing open-source tool (such as
> http://soci.sourceforge.net/) instead of the current
> database_interface. We have also identified the need for a
> higher-level ros-sql conversion tool, to go between ros messages and
> database entries. However, for the moment, no concrete plans for this
> have been laid out.
>
> For now, the database_interface is in use, documented, and I will be
> glad to provide support if you decide to use that. However, in the
> longer run, it might be replaced by other external tools.
>
> Matei
>
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo at shadowrobot.com> wrote:
> > Dear Ivan,
> >
> > I don't think I'm looking for rosbag: we want to build a database (or
> > something similar) of caracteristic values to be able to recognize the
> > different objects based on the values of the sensors. I found this:
> > http://www.ros.org/wiki/database_interface but wanted to know if
> something
> > else existed as well.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ugo
> >
> > On 31/08/10 17:04, Ivan Dryanovski wrote:
> >
> > Ugo,
> >
> > The rosbag package (http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbag) sounds like what
> > you need. It has the capability to record and play back information in
> > ROS, as well as tools to manage timing and synchronization.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Ugo Cupcic <ugo at shadowrobot.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >  Hi,
> >
> > We're participating in a project regarding in hand manipulation.
> >
> > For this project we need to store relatively large quantities of data we
> > get from different sensors (including tactile sensors / position sensors
> > / orientation / ...) to caracterize different objects. We then need to
> > access those data to compare against incoming values.
> >
> > Is there a ROS package which already does this kind of storage / access ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ugo
> >
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> Matei Ciocarlie
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Bhaskara Marthi
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