How to save the context of a system into file for later usage?

Question

I want to save the context of a system into a file so that I can later read from the file and use this context (e.g., do some useful calculations or repeatable simulations). However, I havent' found appropriate methods to save the context into file or read the context from file. Are there any methods for this usage? Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

I'm afraid we don't gave that general feature yet; although it's been on the list for a long time: https://github.com/RobotLocomotion/drake/issues/5856 . As that issue says, we have an amazing new YAML serialization workflow, so it's definitely worth revisiting the idea.