SERN · ICCCN 2026

SERN: Bandwidth-Adaptive Cross-Reality Synchronization for Simulation-Enhanced Robot Navigation

Jumman Hossain, Emon Dey, Snehalraj Chugh, Masud Ahmed, MS Anwar, Abu-Zaher Faridee, Jason Hoppes, Theron Trout, Anjon Basak, Rafidh Chowdhury, Rishabh Mistry, Hyun Kim, Jade Freeman, Niranjan Suri, Adrienne Raglin, Carl Busart, Timothy Gregory, Anuradha Ravi, Nirmalya Roy

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Connecting physical and virtual robots through bandwidth-adaptive synchronization for collaborative navigation.

Virtual environment used in the SERN robot co-simulation system. Full-resolution image

Overview

Simulation can support robot experiments only when the virtual and physical systems remain meaningfully aligned. Communication limits, latency, and changing sensor data make this difficult in distributed robot systems.

SERN connects ROS-based robots with AuroraXR and Unity environments. The work examines synchronization and data exchange between physical and virtual agents for multi-robot navigation.

The linked arXiv version uses the earlier title, “SERN: Simulation-Enhanced Realistic Navigation for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems in Contested Environments.”

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