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This paper presents a tool, one component of the Teleworkbench system, for analyzing experiments in multi-robotics. The proposed tool combines the video taken by a web cam monitoring the field where the experiment runs and some computer generated visual objects representing important events and information as well as robots’ behavior into one interactive video based on MPEG-4 standard. Visualization and data summarization enables the developer to quickly grasp a situation, whereas the possibility of scrolling through the video and selectively activating information helps him analyzing interesting events in depth. Because of the MPEG-4 standard used for the output video, the analysis process can be done in a wide range of platforms. This trait is beneficial for education and research cooperation purposes.1
This work was developed in the course of the Collaborative Research Center 614 Self-optimizing Concepts and Structures in Mechanical Engineering University of Paderborn, and was published on its behalf and funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
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Tanoto, A., Du, J.L., Witkowski, U., Rückert, U. (2006). Teleworkbench: An Analysis Tool for Multi-Robotic Experiments. In: Pan, Y., Rammig, F.J., Schmeck, H., Solar, M. (eds) Biologically Inspired Cooperative Computing. BICC 2006. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 216. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34733-2_18
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