playing ROS '.bag' files

Is there a Matlab ROS library function similar to 'rosbag play'? I have some bag files that I'd like to 'play' with the objective of using the tf's to transform lidar scans etc. ... after reading the tutorials it seems that my only option seems to be to loop through the bag files and publish each message in sequence?

Answer 1

[Alexander]

I don't believe there is a rosbag play or record function like ROS has. You could parse out topics with the following and then loop as you mention, but it's much easier to plot the parsed messages as a time series for instance. As an example to graph odometry as an XY plot-

rosbag(filename);
bagselect = select(bag, 'Topic', '/odom'); 
ts = timeseries(bagselect, 'Pose.Pose.Position.X', 'Pose.Pose.Position.Y');
plot(ts.Data(:,1), ts.Data(:,2));

A ROS style play and record would be a fantastic time saving addition to future Robotics System Toolbox versions.

[Majid Golkhatab]

rosbag(filename);

This code Must change to:

bag = rosbag(filename);