Reproducibility Companion Paper: Swarical: An Integrated Hierarchical Approach to Localizing Flying Light Specks
For researchers working on drone swarms and localization, this reproducibility paper enables verification of the original results.
This paper provides artifacts and instructions to replicate experiments from the original Swarical paper, which introduced a hierarchical localization technique for Flying Light Specks (FLSs) to accurately and efficiently localize and illuminate 2D/3D shapes. The online localization technique was reported to be fast and highly accurate.
This companion paper provides artifacts and instructions on replicating the experiments in the ACM Multimedia 2024 paper entitled "Swarical: An Integrated Hierarchical Approach to Localizing Flying Light Specks." Swarm-based hierarchical, Swarical, is a localization technique that enables miniature drones, Flying Light Specks (FLSs), to accurately and efficiently localize and illuminate complex 2D and 3D shapes. It consists of two components, an offline planner and an online localization technique that executes on an FLS. The offline planner uses the FLS sensor specification for positioning to convert mesh files into swarms of FLSs. Some FLSs are dark and used only for localization. We reported the online localization technique to be fast and highly accurate. We describe how to reproduce this finding using our artifacts.