AERR-Nav: Adaptive Exploration-Recovery-Reminiscing Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

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Main Authors: Huang, Jingzhi, Huang, Junkai, Yang, Haoyang, Li, Haoang, Wang, Yi
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author Huang, Jingzhi
Huang, Junkai
Yang, Haoyang
Li, Haoang
Wang, Yi
author_facet Huang, Jingzhi
Huang, Junkai
Yang, Haoyang
Li, Haoang
Wang, Yi
contents Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) in unknown multi-floor environments presents a significant challenge. Recent methods, mostly based on semantic value greedy waypoint selection, spatial topology-enhanced memory, and Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) as a decision-making framework, have led to improvements. However, these architectures struggle to balance exploration and exploitation for ZSON when encountering unseen environments, especially in multi-floor settings, such as robots getting stuck at narrow intersections, endlessly wandering, or failing to find stair entrances. To overcome these challenges, we propose AERR-Nav, a Zero-Shot Object Navigation framework that dynamically adjusts its state based on the robot's environment. Specifically, AERR-Nav has the following two key advantages: (1) An Adaptive Exploration-Recovery-Reminiscing Strategy, enables robots to dynamically transition between three states, facilitating specialized responses to diverse navigation scenarios. (2) An Adaptive Exploration State featuring Fast and Slow-Thinking modes helps robots better balance exploration, exploitation, and higher-level reasoning based on evolving environmental information. Extensive experiments on the HM3D and MP3D benchmarks demonstrate that our AERR-Nav achieves state-of-the-art performance among zero-shot methods. Comprehensive ablation studies further validate the efficacy of our proposed strategy and modules.
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spellingShingle AERR-Nav: Adaptive Exploration-Recovery-Reminiscing Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
Huang, Jingzhi
Huang, Junkai
Yang, Haoyang
Li, Haoang
Wang, Yi
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) in unknown multi-floor environments presents a significant challenge. Recent methods, mostly based on semantic value greedy waypoint selection, spatial topology-enhanced memory, and Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) as a decision-making framework, have led to improvements. However, these architectures struggle to balance exploration and exploitation for ZSON when encountering unseen environments, especially in multi-floor settings, such as robots getting stuck at narrow intersections, endlessly wandering, or failing to find stair entrances. To overcome these challenges, we propose AERR-Nav, a Zero-Shot Object Navigation framework that dynamically adjusts its state based on the robot's environment. Specifically, AERR-Nav has the following two key advantages: (1) An Adaptive Exploration-Recovery-Reminiscing Strategy, enables robots to dynamically transition between three states, facilitating specialized responses to diverse navigation scenarios. (2) An Adaptive Exploration State featuring Fast and Slow-Thinking modes helps robots better balance exploration, exploitation, and higher-level reasoning based on evolving environmental information. Extensive experiments on the HM3D and MP3D benchmarks demonstrate that our AERR-Nav achieves state-of-the-art performance among zero-shot methods. Comprehensive ablation studies further validate the efficacy of our proposed strategy and modules.
title AERR-Nav: Adaptive Exploration-Recovery-Reminiscing Strategy for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.17712