http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingTopics
- rostopic
- rqt_graph
- rosmsg
rqt_graph
一个用于查看topic的sub/pub关系的node.
rostopic
获取与topic相关的信息
rostopic bw display bandwidth used by topic
rostopic echo print messages to screen
rostopic hz display publishing rate of topic
rostopic list print information about active topics
rostopic pub publish data to topic
rostopic type print topic type
几种用法简介
rostopic echo [topic]
实际上就是subscribe了一个topic 当有向这个topic的消息发出时,打印出msg在屏幕上
rostopic list
输出当前的系统有哪些topic及publisher/sunscriber,如下
Published topics:
* /turtle1/color_sensor [turtlesim/Color] 1 publisher
* /turtle1/cmd_vel [geometry_msgs/Twist] 1 publisher
* /rosout [rosgraph_msgs/Log] 2 publishers
* /rosout_agg [rosgraph_msgs/Log] 1 publisher
* /turtle1/pose [turtlesim/Pose] 1 publisher
Subscribed topics:
* /turtle1/cmd_vel [geometry_msgs/Twist] 1 subscriber
* /rosout [rosgraph_msgs/Log] 1 subscriber
rostopic type [topic]
显示该topic的消息类型
rostopic type /turtle1/cmd_vel --> geometry_msgs/Twist
rosmsg show [msgtype]
显示当前type的msg的具体信息
rosmsg show geometry_msgs/Twist,输出如下
geometry_msgs/Vector3 linear
float64 x
float64 y
float64 z
geometry_msgs/Vector3 angular
float64 x
float64 y
float64 z
rostopic pub [topic] [msg_type] [args]
发送一个消息
rostopic pub -1 /turtle1/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist -- '[2.0, 0.0, 0.0]' '[0.0, 0.0, 1.8]'
-1代表发完就退出. --意思是其后面的内容不是option,不用解析.防止你的具体消息内容里带-
rostopic pub /turtle1/cmd_vel geometry_msgs/Twist -r 1 -- '[2.0, 0.0, 0.0]' '[0.0, 0.0, -1.8]'
-r 1的意思是每秒发1次
rostopic hz [topic]
查看某个topic的发送频率
rqt_plot
rqt_plot displays a scrolling time plot of the data published on topics. Here we'll use rqt_plot to plot the data being published on the /turtle1/pose topic.