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

[Christopher Berner]

Cool, that CityFlyer ground station looks pretty nice. Pity the code is all
GTK, but maybe I can rewrite some of their work to integrate with the new
Qt plugin framework.

@Austin, thanks that seems like the right way to go to me also, now that
I've started looking at the code.

Thanks for the help guys!
Christopher

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Chad Rockey <chadrockey at gmail.com> wrote:

> CCNY had a ground station display with GPS and attitude indicators.  I'm
> not sure what it's current state is or what graphics library it uses, but
> it's worth taking a look:
>
> http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2010/08/cityflyer-ground-station.html
> http://www.ros.org/doc/api/ground_station/html/files.html
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Austin Hendrix <legotown at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 at 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 at 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > 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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