New paper published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI

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Posted on Tuesday 24 July 2018

A paper based on research conducted at YRL has today been published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. The paper, which discusses the ARDebug software for augmented reality assisted debugging and tracking of robotic swarms, builds on work carried out by Alistair Jewers, an undergraduate student who graduated last year, as his final year research project, and also Charlotte Arndt, a current MSc Intelligent Robotics student.

Analysing and debugging the behaviour of swarm robotic systems is a challenge due to the lack of appropriate tools. In the paper, we present a solution to this problem—ARDebug: an open-source, cross-platform, and modular tool that allows the user to visualise the internal state of a robot swarm using graphical augmented reality techniques. The paper describes the key features of the software, the hardware required to support it, its implementation, and usage examples. ARDebug is specifically designed with adoption by other institutions in mind, and aims to provide an extensible tool that other researchers can easily integrate with their own experimental infrastructure.

Frontiers is an open-access journal and the full text of the paper can be found here.