Useful Tools

In progress construction

Commandline Tools

Tools for doing typical commandline things (i.e. change dir, editing, running programs) within ROS.

Check out ROS commandline tools: ROS/CommandLineTools

Tools for recording data in ROS.

Check out ROSrecord tools: rosrecord

Tools that display diagnostic system information.

rxconsole - this displays a console with debug information coming from the current system.

rosmake rxtools
rxconsole

runtime_monitor - this displays a console with debug information about the current hardware

rosmake runtime_monitor
rosrun runtime_monitor wxmonitor.py

pr2_dashboard - this displays a rxconsole, wxmonitor, power board, and battery status

rosmake pr2_dashboard
rosrun pr2_dashboard pr2_dashboard

rxgraph - shows you the state of the ROS communication graph

rosmake rxtools
rxgraph

rviz - this displays a visualization of the current robot configuration.

rosmake rviz
rosrun rviz rviz

rxplot - this displays a scrolling plot of data on a topic.

rosmake rosviz
rxplot /topic1/field1:field2:field3