LARS: A Light-Augmented Reality System for Collective Robotic Interaction.

ABSTRACT: Collective robotics systems hold great potential for future education and public engagement; however, only a few are utilized in these contexts. One reason is the lack of accessible tools to convey their complex, embodied interactions. In this work, we introduce the Light-Augmented Reality System (LARS), an open-source, marker-free, cross-platform tool designed to support experimentation, education, and outreach in collective robotics. LARS employs Extended Reality (XR) to project dynamic visual objects into the physical environment. This enables indirect robot-robot communication through stigmergy while preserving the physical and sensing constraints of the real robots, and enhances robot-human interaction by making otherwise hidden information visible. The system is low-cost, easy to dep

SUBMITTER: Raoufi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12431334 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature