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What is going on my robot? Watching the robot moving autonomously is not enough and debugging from a User Interface can be the right solution to see what is going on the robot.

How to do that?

nanosaur robot rviz

:memo: Note If your device has a valid version of ROS installed, you can choice to run instead in a docker, directly on your host. A question will appear everytime you type the command.

The terminal will show something like the picture below:

nanosaur robot rviz
nanosaur robot rviz command

What is RViz in ROS 2?

RViz (ROS Visualization) is a powerful 3D visualization tool for ROS (Robot Operating System). It allows you to visualize sensor data, robot models, navigation maps, and more.

What you can do?

  • Visualize sensor data (e.g., LiDAR, depth cameras, IMU).
  • Display the nanosaur model.
  • Show real-time transforms (TF frames).
  • Overlay navigation maps and planned paths.
  • Debug robot movement and localization.
  • Use interactive markers to control the robot.

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