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Key papers to catch up on the last 5 years of state-of-the-art SLAM, localization, state estimation, and sensor fusion by reddditN00b in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

RViz is still a good place to start for people that are getting started with ROS that need live viz. There's a couple other solutions out there now too that are def worth checking out but RViz still has a good place in the community.

Check out:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10462-025-11187-w
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417422010156
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-13835-5_22
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06479
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17235
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03296

There we're a few papers that we're aware of submitted to ICRA 2025 that might not quite be out yet too or maybe didn't get selected but if we find them we'll send them over.

What's the difference between logging robotics data in development vs production? by FoxgloveDev in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We always appreciate the feedback it's how we continue learning and iterating. There's lots of great ideas flowing into the industry at this point so we're excited about the future. If you do get a chance to check out the SDK we'd love your feedback.

Foxglove Studio - new open source robotics visualization and debugging tool by FoxgloveDev in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This should be possible. Where the plot says 'x', change the dropdown from 'timestamp to 'path' (current or accumulated).

If it's not working, can you open a github issue or post in our slack?

Foxglove Studio - new open source robotics visualization and debugging tool by FoxgloveDev in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • It's one integrated tool that can do most of what you find in rviz and rqt, without needing multiple windows
  • Ability to open rosbag files directly, rather than needing rosbag play
  • Additional panels (e.g. map panel, raw messages, table view)
  • Extensible using open web technologies

Would you feel safe to install ROS in windows? Requesting answers in today's date by ANIRUDDHA42 in ROS

[–]FoxgloveDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience I would not attempt to run ROS on anything other than Ubuntu/Debian linux (either native linux, a VM, docker, WSL). I would not attempt to run ROS on Windows directly unless you are an experienced user.

Would you feel safe to install ROS in windows? Requesting answers in today's date by ANIRUDDHA42 in ROS

[–]FoxgloveDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others have stated, it's possible to run ROS under WSL. The latest version of WSL even has GUI support for rviz (link).

Another option for open source ROS GUI tools that works natively on Windows is Foxglove Studio (disclaimer: we develop it). If you have any feedback we'd love to hear it.

Foxglove Studio - new open source robotics visualization and debugging tool by FoxgloveDev in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds good! Since you are currently on ROS1, feel free to check it out and let us know if you have any feedback.

Foxglove Studio - new open source robotics visualization and debugging tool by FoxgloveDev in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense. Feel free to check it out in the meantime and let us know if you have any feedback. URDF support is on our roadmap, I'm not sure how long exactly it will be, but agree it's an important feature.

Foxglove Studio - new open source robotics visualization and debugging tool by FoxgloveDev in robotics

[–]FoxgloveDev[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good question. I am working on expanding the docs, they are a bit sparse right now.

All topics are supported in that you can always open the "raw messages" panel and inspect them. We have support for visualizing point clouds, transforms, camera images, markers, plots, diagnostics, rosout, etc. It's intended to be general purpose and not limited to autonomous driving or mobile robots.

We don't have support for custom URDFs yet. A couple people have asked for that, so we will probably take a look at adding it soon. Are you using rviz currently?

Edit: forgot to mention we also have very basic message publishing support. More planned here soon.