Spot-On: A Mixed Reality Interface for Multi-Robot Cooperation

TL;DR

This paper presents Spot-On, a mixed reality interface enabling intuitive multi-robot cooperation in complex environments, demonstrated through diverse collaborative tasks and validated by user studies.

Contribution

Introducing a novel MR framework that facilitates multi-robot collaboration in semantically rich environments, enhancing usability and effectiveness.

Findings

High user satisfaction ratings in usability study

Successful execution of diverse collaborative tasks

Effective integration of MR with multi-robot systems

Abstract

Recent progress in mixed reality (MR) and robotics is enabling increasingly sophisticated forms of human-robot collaboration. Building on these developments, we introduce a novel MR framework that allows multiple quadruped robots to operate in semantically diverse environments via a MR interface. Our system supports collaborative tasks involving drawers, swing doors, and higher-level infrastructure such as light switches. A comprehensive user study verifies both the design and usability of our app, with participants giving a "good" or "very good" rating in almost all cases. Overall, our approach provides an effective and intuitive framework for MR-based multi-robot collaboration in complex, real-world scenarios.