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Auteurs principaux: Zhu, Haokun, Li, Zongtai, Liu, Zhixuan, Wang, Wenshan, Zhang, Ji, Francis, Jonathan, Oh, Jean
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06729
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author Zhu, Haokun
Li, Zongtai
Liu, Zhixuan
Wang, Wenshan
Zhang, Ji
Francis, Jonathan
Oh, Jean
author_facet Zhu, Haokun
Li, Zongtai
Liu, Zhixuan
Wang, Wenshan
Zhang, Ji
Francis, Jonathan
Oh, Jean
contents Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly integrated into object navigation tasks for their rich prior knowledge and strong reasoning abilities. However, applying VLMs to navigation poses two key challenges: effectively representing complex environment information and determining \textit{when and how} to query VLMs. Insufficient environment understanding and over-reliance on VLMs (e.g. querying at every step) can lead to unnecessary backtracking and reduced navigation efficiency, especially in continuous environments. To address these challenges, we propose a novel framework that constructs a multi-layer representation of the environment during navigation. This representation consists of viewpoint, object nodes, and room nodes. Viewpoints and object nodes facilitate intra-room exploration and accurate target localization, while room nodes support efficient inter-room planning. Building on this representation, we propose a novel two-stage navigation policy, integrating high-level planning guided by VLM reasoning with low-level VLM-assisted exploration to efficiently locate a goal object. We evaluated our approach on three simulated benchmarks (HM3D, RoboTHOR, and MP3D), and achieved state-of-the-art performance on both the success rate ($\mathord{\uparrow}\, 7.1\%$) and navigation efficiency ($\mathord{\uparrow}\, 12.5\%$). We further validate our method on a real robot platform, demonstrating strong robustness across 15 object navigation tasks in 10 different indoor environments. Project page is available at https://zwandering.github.io/STRIVE.github.io/ .
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spellingShingle STRIVE: Structured Representation Integrating VLM Reasoning for Efficient Object Navigation
Zhu, Haokun
Li, Zongtai
Liu, Zhixuan
Wang, Wenshan
Zhang, Ji
Francis, Jonathan
Oh, Jean
Robotics
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly integrated into object navigation tasks for their rich prior knowledge and strong reasoning abilities. However, applying VLMs to navigation poses two key challenges: effectively representing complex environment information and determining \textit{when and how} to query VLMs. Insufficient environment understanding and over-reliance on VLMs (e.g. querying at every step) can lead to unnecessary backtracking and reduced navigation efficiency, especially in continuous environments. To address these challenges, we propose a novel framework that constructs a multi-layer representation of the environment during navigation. This representation consists of viewpoint, object nodes, and room nodes. Viewpoints and object nodes facilitate intra-room exploration and accurate target localization, while room nodes support efficient inter-room planning. Building on this representation, we propose a novel two-stage navigation policy, integrating high-level planning guided by VLM reasoning with low-level VLM-assisted exploration to efficiently locate a goal object. We evaluated our approach on three simulated benchmarks (HM3D, RoboTHOR, and MP3D), and achieved state-of-the-art performance on both the success rate ($\mathord{\uparrow}\, 7.1\%$) and navigation efficiency ($\mathord{\uparrow}\, 12.5\%$). We further validate our method on a real robot platform, demonstrating strong robustness across 15 object navigation tasks in 10 different indoor environments. Project page is available at https://zwandering.github.io/STRIVE.github.io/ .
title STRIVE: Structured Representation Integrating VLM Reasoning for Efficient Object Navigation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06729