Augmented Robot Environment
IROS 2023 XR-ROB Workshop Submission
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A human-robot teaming demonstration showing the various modalities developed for an augmented reality-based user interface to command, control, and supervise large multi-agent teams. This video demonstration accompanies the IROS 2023 XR-ROB Workshop abstract submission.
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Main Publication
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Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) framework for command, control, and supervision of large multi-agent teams. AugRE enables the combination of ROS-based robotic systems with Microsoft HoloLens 2 AR headsets to form a scalable multi-agent human-robot teaming system for indoor and outdoor exploration. The system allows multiple users to localize and communicate in unknown open environments. An overview of AugRE and details of the novel system architecture that allows for large-scale human-robot teaming is discussed in detail in the publication linked below. Studies showcasing system performance with multiple robotic clients are presented. Results show that AugRE can scale to 50 robotic clients with minimal performance degradation, partly due to key components that leverage a recent advancement in robotic client-to-client communication called Robofleet.
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Citation
@inproceedings{regal_augre_2023,
title = {AugRE: Augmented Robot Environment to Facilitate Human-Robot Teaming and Communication},
author = {Regal, Frank and Petlowany, Christina and Pehlivanturk, Can and Van Sice, Corrie
and Suarez, Chris and Anderson, Blake and Pryor, Mitch},
booktitle = {2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
pages={800-805},
year = {2022},
organization={IEEE},
doi={10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900721}
}