RICO-MR: An Open-Source Architecture for Robot Intent Communication through Mixed Reality

TL;DR

This paper introduces RICO-MR, an open-source, modular architecture utilizing Mixed Reality and Head-Mounted Displays to effectively communicate robot intentions to humans, supporting scalable multi-robot collaboration.

Contribution

It presents a novel, open-source architecture that is modular, reusable, and scalable for robot intention communication using Mixed Reality technology.

Findings

Architecture is open-source and easily adoptable.

Supports multi-robot and multi-human collaborative scenarios.

Available source code and binaries facilitate integration.

Abstract

This article presents an open-source architecture for conveying robots' intentions to human teammates using Mixed Reality and Head-Mounted Displays. The architecture has been developed focusing on its modularity and re-usability aspects. Both binaries and source code are available, enabling researchers and companies to adopt the proposed architecture as a standalone solution or to integrate it in more comprehensive implementations. Due to its scalability, the proposed architecture can be easily employed to develop shared Mixed Reality experiences involving multiple robots and human teammates in complex collaborative scenarios.