ROS-2 · Foxglove Visualization

Some brief notes for quick reference.

Foxglove visualization.

• to install ros-bridge
  • sudo apt install ros-humble-rosbridge-suite
• to launch ros-bridge
  • ros2 launch rosbridge_server rosbridge_websocket_launch.xml
  • change address and port if necessary
• using Foxglove with ROS official documentation
  • by default, the address and port are ws://localhost:9090
  • to debug remotely, your and host machines should be in the same network, you can typically configure Foxglove to monitor ws://{host_machine_address}:9090
  • to debug remotely offline, you can record ROS Bags as MCAP files and review them in Foxglove
• visualizing transformation official documentation
• below visualization uses Foxglove's web API, the panels are:
  • Plot for curves
  • 3D for transformation, which can also visualize robot URDF like in RViz, see official documentation for more information
  • Raw Message for raw text in JSON format

A simple ROS-2 example with pose and transformation publishers.

The ROS-2 example's package XML.

The ROS-2 example's CMake.