PlaceNav: Topological Navigation through Place Recognition

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Hauptverfasser: Suomela, Lauri, Kalliola, Jussi, Edelman, Harry, Kämäräinen, Joni-Kristian
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author Suomela, Lauri
Kalliola, Jussi
Edelman, Harry
Kämäräinen, Joni-Kristian
author_facet Suomela, Lauri
Kalliola, Jussi
Edelman, Harry
Kämäräinen, Joni-Kristian
contents Recent results suggest that splitting topological navigation into robot-independent and robot-specific components improves navigation performance by enabling the robot-independent part to be trained with data collected by robots of different types. However, the navigation methods' performance is still limited by the scarcity of suitable training data and they suffer from poor computational scaling. In this work, we present PlaceNav, subdividing the robot-independent part into navigation-specific and generic computer vision components. We utilize visual place recognition for the subgoal selection of the topological navigation pipeline. This makes subgoal selection more efficient and enables leveraging large-scale datasets from non-robotics sources, increasing training data availability. Bayesian filtering, enabled by place recognition, further improves navigation performance by increasing the temporal consistency of subgoals. Our experimental results verify the design and the new method obtains a 76% higher success rate in indoor and 23% higher in outdoor navigation tasks with higher computational efficiency.
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spellingShingle PlaceNav: Topological Navigation through Place Recognition
Suomela, Lauri
Kalliola, Jussi
Edelman, Harry
Kämäräinen, Joni-Kristian
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Recent results suggest that splitting topological navigation into robot-independent and robot-specific components improves navigation performance by enabling the robot-independent part to be trained with data collected by robots of different types. However, the navigation methods' performance is still limited by the scarcity of suitable training data and they suffer from poor computational scaling. In this work, we present PlaceNav, subdividing the robot-independent part into navigation-specific and generic computer vision components. We utilize visual place recognition for the subgoal selection of the topological navigation pipeline. This makes subgoal selection more efficient and enables leveraging large-scale datasets from non-robotics sources, increasing training data availability. Bayesian filtering, enabled by place recognition, further improves navigation performance by increasing the temporal consistency of subgoals. Our experimental results verify the design and the new method obtains a 76% higher success rate in indoor and 23% higher in outdoor navigation tasks with higher computational efficiency.
title PlaceNav: Topological Navigation through Place Recognition
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17260