DR. Nav: Semantic-Geometric Representations for Proactive Dead-End Recovery and Navigation
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| author | Rajagopal, Vignesh Mudiyanselage, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun Seneviratne, Gershom Devake Sankaralingam, Pon Aswin Elnoor, Mohamed Liang, Jing Chandra, Rohan Manocha, Dinesh |
| author_facet | Rajagopal, Vignesh Mudiyanselage, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun Seneviratne, Gershom Devake Sankaralingam, Pon Aswin Elnoor, Mohamed Liang, Jing Chandra, Rohan Manocha, Dinesh |
| contents | We present DR. Nav (Dead-End Recovery-aware Navigation), a novel approach to autonomous navigation in scenarios where dead-end detection and recovery are critical, particularly in unstructured environments where robots must handle corners, vegetation occlusions, and blocked junctions. DR. Nav introduces a proactive strategy for navigation in unmapped environments without prior assumptions. Our method unifies dead-end prediction and recovery by generating a single, continuous, real-time semantic cost map. Specifically, DR. Nav leverages cross-modal RGB-LiDAR fusion with attention-based filtering to estimate per-cell dead-end likelihoods and recovery points, which are continuously updated through Bayesian inference to enhance robustness. Unlike prior mapping methods that only encode traversability, DR. Nav explicitly incorporates recovery-aware risk into the navigation cost map, enabling robots to anticipate unsafe regions and plan safer alternative trajectories. We evaluate DR. Nav across multiple dense indoor and outdoor scenarios and demonstrate an increase of 83.33% in accuracy in detection, a 52.4% reduction in time-to-goal (path efficiency), compared to state-of-the-art planners such as DWA, MPPI, and Nav2 DWB. Furthermore, the dead-end classifier functions |
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| spellingShingle | DR. Nav: Semantic-Geometric Representations for Proactive Dead-End Recovery and Navigation Rajagopal, Vignesh Mudiyanselage, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun Seneviratne, Gershom Devake Sankaralingam, Pon Aswin Elnoor, Mohamed Liang, Jing Chandra, Rohan Manocha, Dinesh Robotics We present DR. Nav (Dead-End Recovery-aware Navigation), a novel approach to autonomous navigation in scenarios where dead-end detection and recovery are critical, particularly in unstructured environments where robots must handle corners, vegetation occlusions, and blocked junctions. DR. Nav introduces a proactive strategy for navigation in unmapped environments without prior assumptions. Our method unifies dead-end prediction and recovery by generating a single, continuous, real-time semantic cost map. Specifically, DR. Nav leverages cross-modal RGB-LiDAR fusion with attention-based filtering to estimate per-cell dead-end likelihoods and recovery points, which are continuously updated through Bayesian inference to enhance robustness. Unlike prior mapping methods that only encode traversability, DR. Nav explicitly incorporates recovery-aware risk into the navigation cost map, enabling robots to anticipate unsafe regions and plan safer alternative trajectories. We evaluate DR. Nav across multiple dense indoor and outdoor scenarios and demonstrate an increase of 83.33% in accuracy in detection, a 52.4% reduction in time-to-goal (path efficiency), compared to state-of-the-art planners such as DWA, MPPI, and Nav2 DWB. Furthermore, the dead-end classifier functions |
| title | DR. Nav: Semantic-Geometric Representations for Proactive Dead-End Recovery and Navigation |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12778 |