Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation

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Main Authors: Sun, Samson, Yang, Tianyi, Wang, Tengyue, Xue, Yikai, Xu, Zhengjie, Zhang, Lingming, Zhang, Qichen, Liang, Chao, Zhang, Zhipeng
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author Sun, Samson
Yang, Tianyi
Wang, Tengyue
Xue, Yikai
Xu, Zhengjie
Zhang, Lingming
Zhang, Qichen
Liang, Chao
Zhang, Zhipeng
author_facet Sun, Samson
Yang, Tianyi
Wang, Tengyue
Xue, Yikai
Xu, Zhengjie
Zhang, Lingming
Zhang, Qichen
Liang, Chao
Zhang, Zhipeng
contents The pursuit of general-purpose embodied agents is hindered by fragmented evaluation protocols that isolate navigation skills and fixate on specific robot morphologies, failing to reflect real-world scenarios where agents must orchestrate diverse behaviors across varying embodiments. To bridge this gap, we introduce OmniNavBench, a benchmark for cross-skill coordination and cross-embodiment generalization. OmniNavBench introduces three paradigm shifts: (1) Compositional Complexity. We propose composite instructions that interleave sub-tasks from 6 categories (PointNav, VLN, ObjectNav, SocialNav, Human Following and EQA), compelling agents to transition between exploration, interaction, and social compliance within a single episode. (2) Morphological Universality and Sensor Flexibility. We present a simulation platform that breaks the reliance on single-morphology evaluation, enabling generalization tests across humanoid, quadrupedal, and wheeled robots, with a modular sensor interface and 170 environments blending synthetic assets with real-world scans. (3) Demonstrations Quality. Moving beyond shortest-path algorithms, we curate 1779 expert trajectories via human teleoperation, capturing behavioral nuances such as exploratory glance and anticipatory avoidance. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that current methods, despite their claimed unified design, struggle with the complex, interleaved nature of general-purpose navigation. This exposes a critical disparity between existing capabilities and real-world deployment demands, underscoring OmniNavBench as a testbed for the next generation of generalist navigators. Dataset, code, and leaderboard are available at http://omninavbench.cloud-ip.cc.
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spellingShingle Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation
Sun, Samson
Yang, Tianyi
Wang, Tengyue
Xue, Yikai
Xu, Zhengjie
Zhang, Lingming
Zhang, Qichen
Liang, Chao
Zhang, Zhipeng
Robotics
The pursuit of general-purpose embodied agents is hindered by fragmented evaluation protocols that isolate navigation skills and fixate on specific robot morphologies, failing to reflect real-world scenarios where agents must orchestrate diverse behaviors across varying embodiments. To bridge this gap, we introduce OmniNavBench, a benchmark for cross-skill coordination and cross-embodiment generalization. OmniNavBench introduces three paradigm shifts: (1) Compositional Complexity. We propose composite instructions that interleave sub-tasks from 6 categories (PointNav, VLN, ObjectNav, SocialNav, Human Following and EQA), compelling agents to transition between exploration, interaction, and social compliance within a single episode. (2) Morphological Universality and Sensor Flexibility. We present a simulation platform that breaks the reliance on single-morphology evaluation, enabling generalization tests across humanoid, quadrupedal, and wheeled robots, with a modular sensor interface and 170 environments blending synthetic assets with real-world scans. (3) Demonstrations Quality. Moving beyond shortest-path algorithms, we curate 1779 expert trajectories via human teleoperation, capturing behavioral nuances such as exploratory glance and anticipatory avoidance. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that current methods, despite their claimed unified design, struggle with the complex, interleaved nature of general-purpose navigation. This exposes a critical disparity between existing capabilities and real-world deployment demands, underscoring OmniNavBench as a testbed for the next generation of generalist navigators. Dataset, code, and leaderboard are available at http://omninavbench.cloud-ip.cc.
title Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09441