ROS Topics

NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION CURRENTLY VERY ROUGH DRAFT :)

ROS TOPICS TO GET STARTED

To add any topic to Rviz start by clicking the add button on the bottom left of the Rviz screen:

Then in the window that appears, select the By Topic tab:

These first two steps are the same for the rest of the topics that follow:

Skeletons (/tracker/skeleton_marker_array):

In the By Topic Tab, scroll down and look for the header tracker and the sub-group skeletons_marker_array. Now select the MarkerArray under this header. Lastly select Okay to add this topic to Rviz:

Object/Props Identification (/tracker/object_markers_array_smoothed) [i.e. seeing the object marker with its name defined in the object training GUI]

In the By Topic Tab, scroll down and look for the header tracker and the sub-group object_markers_array_smoothed. Now select the MarkerArray under this header. Lastly select Okay to add this topic to Rviz:

Object/Props History (/tracker/object_history ) [this is the line that shows were an object was]

In the By Topic Tab, scroll down and look for the header tracker and the sub-group object_history. Now select the PointCloud2 under this header. Lastly select Okay to add this topic to Rviz:

Trained Poses (/recognizer/markers)

In the By Topic Tab, scroll down and look for the header recognizer and the sub-group markers. Now select the MarkerArray under this header. Lastly select Okay to add this topic to Rviz:

I made a mistake, and did not take the correct screenshot for this, but if you have gotten this far you should be able to find this topic :)