What is the best way to record "ground truth" data during a simulation at each simulation timestep, ideally in an "exportable" format like .csv? Is there a generic approach that would work across different variables of interest (model pose, velocity, accelerations, joint states, contact forces/torques), or would each type of value require individual instrumentation/configuration?
All of the methods I've found have fallen a bit short of my expectations.
- The record logging utility works reasonably well, and can be started/stopped from the command line which is nice, but I've only been able to get
posedata (issue here) - Gazebo's plotting utility has a nice intuitive interface and can export data in a .csv format, but to my knowledge doesn't have a programmatic interface for more systematic data collection, and appears to be limited to 10s of data
- Gazebo ROS Plugins offer a number of sensor plugins (GPS, Force Torque, Joint State) that can monitor different aspects of the states of models, which could then be monitored and compiled into a data log (perhaps using something like plot juggler), but each model needs to be configured manually with multiple plugins before starting, and I'm not sure how "lock-step" the data published to ROS would be with the simulation.
Am I missing anything obvious? I feel like this should be pretty common functionality, so I am surprised that I haven't found a good existing approach. Thanks!
Originally posted by shonigmann on Gazebo Answers with karma: 16 on 2021-12-07
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