Foxglove Studio

A robot data visualization tool that replays rosbags and shows curves, point clouds, and images in one view.

Foxglove is a robot data visualization and debugging tool from the company Foxglove, available as both a web app and a desktop app. It can connect to a running ROS 1 or ROS 2 system, and can also open recorded rosbag and MCAP files (MCAP being a robot logging format that Foxglove itself helped launch), showing camera footage, 3D point clouds, the TF coordinate tree, joint curves, and logs all in one interface at once. Compared with RViz, it doesn't require ROS to be installed locally, and its layouts can be saved and shared, which makes it convenient for a team reviewing data together. It started out as the open-source Foxglove Studio; reportedly, starting in 2024 it became closed-source and was simply renamed Foxglove, with usage limits on the free tier — Rerun and PlotJuggler are open-source alternatives.

ExampleAfter a real-robot policy run fails, drag the recorded MCAP file into Foxglove and compare the wrist-camera footage against the joint-torque curves to pinpoint the moment of failure.

Also called

Foxglove

Related

RViz / RViz2 · ROS Bag · MCAP · Rerun · PlotJuggler · Robot Operating System 2

Sources

Foxglove 官网 (Chinese)
Foxglove Docs

As of

2024