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Main Authors: Zhou, Puqi, Asgarov, Ali, Hussain, Aafiya, Park, Wonjoon, Paudyal, Amit, Shrestha, Sameep, Tang, Chia-wei, Lighthiser, Michael F., Hieb, Michael R., Xiao, Xuesu, Thomas, Chris, Hong, Sungsoo Ray
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08882
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  • Videos from fleets of ground robots can advance public safety by providing scalable situational awareness and reducing professionals' burden. Yet little is known about how to design and integrate multi-robot videos into public safety workflows. Collaborating with six police agencies, we examined how such videos could be made practical. In Study 1, we presented the first testbed for multi-robot ground video sensemaking. The testbed includes 38 events-of-interest (EoI) relevant to public safety, a dataset of 20 robot patrol videos (10 day/night pairs) covering EoI types, and 6 design requirements aimed at improving current video sensemaking practices. In Study 2, we built MRVS, a tool that augments multi-robot patrol video streams with a prompt-engineered video understanding model. Participants reported reduced manual workload and greater confidence with LLM-based explanations, while noting concerns about false alarms and privacy. We conclude with implications for designing future multi-robot video sensemaking tools.