ros_realtime_plotter

A demo of real-time data collection and plotting for the Robot Operating System in Python. This example was created for my talk at PyCon Canada 2015:

For a more detailed introduction on the Robotics Operating System, consider checking out Clearpath Robotic's Excellent ROS tutorials.

Installation

• Install ROS and gazebo

• Create a workspace

mkdir -p raz_ws/src
cd raz_ws/src
catkin_init_workspace

• Clone this repo and and the razbot_tutorials repo into the workspace

git clone https://github.com/clearpathrobotics/razbot_tutorials.git
git clone https://github.com/CatherineH/ros_realtime_plotter.git

• Install the required python libraries

cd ros_realtime_plotter
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

• Build the package

cd ../..
catkin_make

Running

• Set up the environment variables

source devel/setup.bash

• Run the roslaunch file

roslaunch ros_realtime_plotter experiment.launch

In Action