Saving odometry data:Conversion into "txt" / "CSV"

asked 2017-03-12 06:32:55 -0600

Ayush Sharma
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updated 2017-03-13 09:11:56 -0600

I want to get the raw odometry data from the Rviz. Consider the following example i have implemented from one of the ROS Books in which the bot is supposed to move from one position to another and then come back to the starting point.

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As shown in the output, the arrows represents the odom data. I want to view this odom data in a file including the complete raw data of odom in text form of the whole process. I want to view the data the Rviz is planning at each instant of time. Is it feasible with ROS?? I tried the rosbag concept, but playing the generated bag file is not giving me the desired output.

<update> Using ( http://answers.ros.org/question/9102/... , I tried the "rostopic echo -b file.bag -p /topic > data.txt" but I am getting a blank txt file " and i am not able to observe any output with the command "rostopic echo -b file.bag -p /topic.</update>

On using the "rqt" command to check the data of the bag file, then i got the following output. image description This means that the bag file has the data, but then why am i getting a blank ".txt" file?? Also, how to understand the data the "rqt" is showing?? Also, why am i not able to get "csv" file? Note: (Update from the suggested given answer) Using "rostopic echo /odom" is giving an appropriate change of odom values. But i want a user understandable set of odom values.

answered 2017-03-12 07:56:53 -0600

Wolf

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rostopic echo /robot/odom

What you are looking For? Note that you May Change the topic name... Andere you can also Forward the output to a Text File using > operator..

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My requirement is similar to this question. I also need to have info of each step taken by the bot during a simulation, the data processed by the odom in backhand and the laser data.

Ayush Sharma ( 2017-03-12 08:22:45 -0600 )edit

With this , i will then try to retrieve the data of arduino connected ROS and will get the raw data ROS is processing from the ultrasonic sensor. Somewhat similar to what i have asked in this question.

Ayush Sharma ( 2017-03-12 08:25:12 -0600 )edit

Using ( http://answers.ros.org/question/9102/... , I tried the "rostopic echo -b file.bag -p /topic > data.txt" but I am getting a blank txt file " and i am not able to observe any output with the command "rostopic echo -b file.bag -p /topic

Ayush Sharma ( 2017-03-12 08:26:20 -0600 )edit

Did you Check your BAG contains the topic, rosbag info "File Name"?

Wolf ( 2017-03-12 08:32:04 -0600 )edit

Also you can imspect the bag using rqt_bag

Wolf ( 2017-03-12 08:33:32 -0600 )edit

@Wolf, the question has been edited as per your suggested alternatives. Regards

Ayush Sharma ( 2017-03-12 09:35:16 -0600 )edit

I think you can also right click or something to inspect the current message values of each topic in rqt

Wolf ( 2017-03-12 10:53:01 -0600 )edit

Yes sir. I saw the http://wiki.ros.org/rqt_bagand found how we can vary the view. I am now wondering how to save the data in a tabular or excel form ,ie: CSV / Txt format. Don't know why the CSV conversion command is not giving a result and why the txt file showing an empty file. any suggestions?

Ayush Sharma ( 2017-03-12 11:20:50 -0600 )edit

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