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The Passenger Saw What the Physical Robot Saw

A live robot-to-VR link averaged 29.63-millisecond state updates and 2.28% route-progress error over 20 trials.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-15-012
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Summary

A live robot-to-VR link averaged 29.63-millisecond state updates and 2.28% route-progress error over 20 trials.

Passenger-facing autonomous-vehicle studies often use simulated motion or scripted scenes. This framework links a physical ROS 2 robot vehicle to a Unity application on a VR headset, transmitting state and onboard video separately so the virtual vehicle mirrors real motion and exposes navigation decisions. Across 20 closed-loop trials, the authors report 29.63 ms mean state-update latency, 2.28% mean relative route-progress error, 10.006 video frames per second and 0.25% frame loss, with all monitored decisions reflected correctly. The laboratory-scale setup demonstrates synchronization, not passenger trust or road deployment.

Why it matters

A live robot-to-VR link averaged 29.63-millisecond state updates and 2.28% route-progress error over 20 trials.

Limits and context

  • The laboratory-scale setup demonstrates synchronization, not passenger trust or road deployment.

Key claims

  1. A live robot-to-VR link averaged 29.63-millisecond state updates and 2.28% route-progress error over 20 trials.

    Qualification: The laboratory-scale setup demonstrates synchronization, not passenger trust or road deployment.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-15-012

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.13224arXiv · primary research

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