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ROS Visualization and Debugging Tools

In this chapter, we will discuss the following recipes:

Debugging and profiling ROS nodes
Logging and visualizing ROS messages
Inspecting and diagnosing the ROS system
Visualizing and plotting scalar data
Visualizing non-scalar data – 2D/3D images
Recording and playing back ROS topics

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