Benchmarking is nowadays an issue on robotic
research platforms, due to the fact that it is not easy to reproduce
previous experiments and knowing in detail in which real condi-
tions other algorithms have been performed. Having a web-based
tool to configure and execute benchmarks opens the door to new
opportunities as the design of virtual tele-laboratories that permit
the implementation of new algorithms using specific and detailed
constraints. This is fundamental for designing benchmarks that
allow the experiments to be made in a more scientific manner,
taking into account that these experiments should be able to be
reproduced again by other people under the same circumstances.
In the context of underwater interventions with semi-autonomous
robots, the situation gets even more interesting. Experiments
performed by other researchers normally do not include the
whole set of real conditions such as visibility or even water
currents data that would allow the best scientific procedure.
Underwater interventions and specially those performed on real
sea scenarios are expensive, difficult to perform and reproduce.
The contribution of this work is an online configuration tool for
benchmarking using UWSim simulator which can provide an
enormous help for this particular scenario, as will be shown in
this paper.