Debugging Quadrocopter Trajectories in Mixed Reality

Hoppenstedt, Burkhard and Witte, Thomas and Ruof, Jona and Kammerer, Klaus and Tichy, Matthias and Reichert, Manfred and Pryss, Rüdiger (2019) Debugging Quadrocopter Trajectories in Mixed Reality. In: 6th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (SALENTO AVR 2019), June 24-27, 2019, Santa Maria al Bagno, Italy.

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Abstract

Debugging and monitoring robotic applications is a very intricate and error-prone task. To this end, we propose a mixed-reality approach to facilitate this process along a concrete scenario. We connected the Microsoft HoloLens smart glass to the Robot Operating System (ROS), which is used to control robots, and visualize arbitrary flight data of a quadrocopter. Hereby, we display holograms correctly in the real world based on a conversion of the internal tracking coordinates into coordinates provided by a motion capturing system. Moreover, we describe the synchronization process of the internal tracking with the motion capturing. Altogether, the combination of the HoloLens and the external tracking system shows promising preliminary results. Moreover, our approach can be extended to directly manipulate source code through its mixed-reality visualization and offers new interaction methods to debug and develop robotic applications.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: DBIS Research > Publications
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science > Institute of Databases and Informations Systems
Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science > Institute of Databases and Informations Systems > DBIS Research and Teaching > DBIS Research > Publications
Depositing User: Herr Burkhard Hoppenstedt
Date Deposited: 12 Jun 2019 13:57
Last Modified: 12 Mar 2020 22:03
URI: http://dbis.eprints.uni-ulm.de/id/eprint/1766

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