We used to use RViz for 2D plots of the boat, however RViz doesn't work very reliably and crashes without reason (see #216). RViz is a huge piece of software and we are just using it for plotting 2D map of the boat for the simulator, so it is a bit overkill as well.
The idea here is to have a simple live XY plot of the boat using matplotlib.
Closing this for now, let's reopen new one if we need more things to go on this plot.
I've also added a script in /piaccess (live-2D-plot.sh) to run the plot node locally when the boat is at sea.
We used to use RViz for 2D plots of the boat, however RViz doesn't work very reliably and crashes without reason (see #216). RViz is a huge piece of software and we are just using it for plotting 2D map of the boat for the simulator, so it is a bit overkill as well.
The idea here is to have a simple live XY plot of the boat using matplotlib.