ARC Car Project

This project was made by Anjali Gali and Aris Huang under the guidance of Joshua Tabor and Suman Banerjee.

I was fortunate enough to be accepted to the WISCERS research program at UW-Madison, which is a program to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in Computer Sciences research. I was one of 80 students to be selected, and I was extremely lucky to be placed with Dr. Suman Banerjee, assisting him and his student, Josh Tabor, on a research project using Augmented Reality technology to create a testbed for car simulations using ARC Cars.

My specific role on this project was to create an Augmented Reality application that would locate cars in the testbed environment, ensure that these cars can be selected through the app, and set a marker in the virtual environment to ensure that the user could follow the environment. In addition, I built the 3D Models that we used in the environment, and also presented our progress at the end of the semester, and trained a new undergraduate student who joined the lab.

To build this application, we ued a combination of ARFoundation for the AR Functionality with Unity and Rhino to create 3D Models of location markers, car models, etc. These tools were free and open-source, making them easy to incorporate into our application. We also used Vive Trackers to track the location of objects in real-time, then sent this information to Unity in order to overlay 3D Models in the environment.