RAWLOG-GRABBER(1)

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version 2.14.7 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie

💖 rawlog-grabber — the MRPT sensor-slurping bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this page lives inside the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit - MRPT and it's literally the girl who runs around collecting everything your robot's sensors are yapping about. she's called rawlog-grabber and she collects data from robotic sensors. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rawlog-grabber config_file.ini

that's it. one (1) config file. she handles the rest. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: this program makes a thread for every single sensor you declared in the config file, and then it saves all the timestamp-ordered observations into a rawlog file. every sensor gets its own little lane, everything gets sorted by time, and it all lands in one file. iconic behavior honestly.

the valuable (yes the original says "utiliy", we're keeping the energy) utility of this program is that it lets you collect datasets from mobile robots for off-line processing. so you grab all the data now, and you get to sit around analyzing it later. the data-hoarding-to-analysis pipeline, periodt. 🔥

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? don't suffer in silence bestie, please report bugs at:

https://github.com/MRPT/mrpt/issues
no gatekeeping, no "it works on my machine", just drop the issue. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

want the whole application list and their documentation? it's giving:

https://docs.mrpt.org/reference/latest/applications.html

go read it, iykyk. ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

rawlog-grabber is part of the Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT), and it was originally written by the MAPIR laboratory (University of Malaga). academic excellence fr fr. 🎓

and this very manual page? written by Jose Luis Blanco <joseluisblancoc@gmail.com>. give her her flowers. 💐

this program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License. slay, open source. 💖

on Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the BSD License can be found in:

/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD

mwah 💋 that's the whole page. this one was rendered by perl v5.40.1 and it's dated 2025-03-21. go grab some rawlogs bestie, you're gonna eat. 🌸🦋✨

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