ARDebug: An augmented reality tool for analysing and debugging swarm robotic systems

Alan G. Millard; Richard Redpath; Alistair Jewers; Charlotte Arndt; Russell Joyce; James A. Hilder; Liam J. McDaid; David M. Halliday

doi:10.3389/frobt.2018.00087

ARDebug: An augmented reality tool for analysing and debugging swarm robotic systems

Alan G. Millard^*, Richard Redpath, Alistair Jewers, Charlotte Arndt, Russell Joyce, James A. Hilder, Liam J. McDaid, David M. Halliday

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Abstract

Despite growing interest in collective robotics over the past few years, analysing and debugging the behaviour of swarm robotic systems remains a challenge due to the lack of appropriate tools. 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. In this paper we describe 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.

Original language	English
Article number	87
Number of pages	6
Journal	Frontiers Robotics AI
Volume	5
Issue number	JUN
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00087
Publication status	Published - 24 Jul 2018

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© 2018 Millard, Redpath, Jewers, Arndt, Joyce, Hilder, McDaid and
Halliday.

Keywords

Augmented reality
Code:C++
Cross-platform
Debugging
Open-source
Swarm robotics

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