VirTooS: A ROS 2 - Unity Virtualization Toolkit for Fleet Management of Autonomous Mobile Robots

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26066v1
• Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:32:56 GMT
• Title: VirTooS: A ROS 2 - Unity Virtualization Toolkit for Fleet Management of Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Abstract summary: VirTooS is a Python/C# toolkit designed to implement fleet-management tasks on teams of Autonomous Mobile Robots.<n>We leverage the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 and Unity game engine to provide realistic, scalable virtual experiments in a mixed-reality environment.<n>The package comes with a containerized suite to easily deploy it on different machines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we present VirTooS, a Python/C# toolkit designed to implement fleet-management tasks on teams of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs). VirTooS leverages the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 and Unity game engine to provide realistic, scalable virtual experiments in a mixed-reality environment. The toolbox allows users to easily generate and customize virtual scenarios for realistic simulations. Virtual and real sensors as, e.g., LiDARs, can be exploited to map and safely navigate in the mixed-reality environment. To enable distributed robotics experiments, we propose a set of tailored routines leveraging the ChoiRbot framework. As a motivating example, we show a set of experiments for task assignment problems in a virtual environment, allowing seamless interaction among real and virtual robots. Moreover, the package comes with a containerized suite to easily deploy it on different machines. The source code will be made publicly available on GitHub.

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