Field Test Tool: automatic reporting and reliability evaluation for autonomous ground vehicles

Testing and performance analysis for outdoor field robots can be quite challenging, as environmental conditions cannot be completely controlled. In this paper, we present the Field Test Tool, a free, open source framework for logging, annotating, and automatically generating reports of field trials for autonomous ground vehicles. The Field Test Tool integrates a database, an automatic report generator, a web server, an interface for the Robot Operating System, and a web-based user interface. The reporting tool was successfully deployed and used during the European Robotics Hackathon 2021 for a mobile robot performing a navigation task.