DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation
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| author | Gao, Maoguo Zhu, Zejun Sun, Zhiming Ma, Zhengwei Yuan, Longze Ma, Zhongjing Gao, Zhigang Zhang, Jinhui Zou, Suli |
| author_facet | Gao, Maoguo Zhu, Zejun Sun, Zhiming Ma, Zhengwei Yuan, Longze Ma, Zhongjing Gao, Zhigang Zhang, Jinhui Zou, Suli |
| contents | Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation (OVON) requires an embodied agent to locate a language-specified target in unknown environments. Existing zero-shot methods often reason over dense frontier points under incomplete observations, causing unstable route selection, repeated revisits, and unnecessary action overhead. We present DRIVE-Nav, a structured framework that organizes exploration around persistent directions rather than raw frontiers. By inspecting encountered directions more completely and restricting subsequent decisions to still-relevant directions within a forward 240 degree view range, DRIVE-Nav reduces redundant revisits and improves path efficiency. The framework extracts and tracks directional candidates from weighted Fast Marching Method (FMM) paths, maintains representative views for semantic inspection, and combines vision-language-guided prompt enrichment with cross-frame verification to improve grounding reliability. Experiments on HM3D-OVON, HM3Dv2, and MP3D demonstrate strong overall performance and consistent efficiency gains. On HM3D-OVON, DRIVE-Nav achieves 50.2% SR and 32.6% SPL, improving the previous best method by 1.9% SR and 5.6% SPL. It also delivers the best SPL on HM3Dv2 and MP3D and transfers to a physical humanoid robot. Real-world deployment also demonstrates its effectiveness. Project page: https://coolmaoguo.github.io/drive-nav-page/ |
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| spellingShingle | DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation Gao, Maoguo Zhu, Zejun Sun, Zhiming Ma, Zhengwei Yuan, Longze Ma, Zhongjing Gao, Zhigang Zhang, Jinhui Zou, Suli Robotics Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation (OVON) requires an embodied agent to locate a language-specified target in unknown environments. Existing zero-shot methods often reason over dense frontier points under incomplete observations, causing unstable route selection, repeated revisits, and unnecessary action overhead. We present DRIVE-Nav, a structured framework that organizes exploration around persistent directions rather than raw frontiers. By inspecting encountered directions more completely and restricting subsequent decisions to still-relevant directions within a forward 240 degree view range, DRIVE-Nav reduces redundant revisits and improves path efficiency. The framework extracts and tracks directional candidates from weighted Fast Marching Method (FMM) paths, maintains representative views for semantic inspection, and combines vision-language-guided prompt enrichment with cross-frame verification to improve grounding reliability. Experiments on HM3D-OVON, HM3Dv2, and MP3D demonstrate strong overall performance and consistent efficiency gains. On HM3D-OVON, DRIVE-Nav achieves 50.2% SR and 32.6% SPL, improving the previous best method by 1.9% SR and 5.6% SPL. It also delivers the best SPL on HM3Dv2 and MP3D and transfers to a physical humanoid robot. Real-world deployment also demonstrates its effectiveness. Project page: https://coolmaoguo.github.io/drive-nav-page/ |
| title | DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28691 |