Robot Navigation

Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

4 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 4 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

Libraries

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

19 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

5 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 164 papers with code (542 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• Habitat: A Platform for Embodied AI Research
  2 Apr 2019 13 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 15 samples · 12 unverified · 15 pointer-only (licence)
  We present Habitat, a platform for research in embodied artificial intelligence (AI).
• Depth Prediction Without the Sensors: Leveraging Structure for Unsupervised Learning from Monocular Videos
  15 Nov 2018 11 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 3 samples · 2 unverified · 3 pointer-only (licence)
  Models and examples built with TensorFlow
• DD-PPO: Learning Near-Perfect PointGoal Navigators from 2.5 Billion Frames
  1 Nov 2019 8 repositories listed
  We leverage this scaling to train an agent for 2.
• Crowd-Robot Interaction: Crowd-aware Robot Navigation with Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning
  24 Sep 2018 7 repositories listed Syntology ran 6 of 6 samples · 0 unverified
  We propose to (i) rethink pairwise interactions with a self-attention mechanism, and (ii) jointly model Human-Robot as well as Human-Human interactions in the deep reinforcement learning framework.
• Gibson Env: Real-World Perception for Embodied Agents
  31 Aug 2018 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified
  Developing visual perception models for active agents and sensorimotor control are cumbersome to be done in the physical world, as existing algorithms are too slow to efficiently learn in real-time and robots are…
• A Graph Neural Network to Model Disruption in Human-Aware Robot Navigation
  17 Feb 2021 3 repositories listed
  This paper leverages Graph Neural Networks to model robot disruption considering the movement of the humans and the robot so that the model built can be used by path planning algorithms.
• Deep Reinforcement learning for real autonomous mobile robot navigation in indoor environments
  28 May 2020 3 repositories listed
  In this paper we present our proof of concept for autonomous self-learning robot navigation in an unknown environment for a real robot without a map or planner.
• Corners for Layout: End-to-End Layout Recovery from 360 Images
  19 Mar 2019 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 6 samples · 1 unverified · 6 pointer-only (licence)
  The problem of 3D layout recovery in indoor scenes has been a core research topic for over a decade.
• SoFar: Language-Grounded Orientation Bridges Spatial Reasoning and Object Manipulation
  18 Feb 2025 2 repositories listed
  Spatial intelligence is a critical component of embodied AI, promoting robots to understand and interact with their environments.
• PlanVerb: Domain-Independent Verbalization and Summary of Task Plans
  28 Jun 2022 2 repositories listed
  Our method can generate natural language descriptions of plans including causal explanations.
• Intention Aware Robot Crowd Navigation with Attention-Based Interaction Graph
  3 Mar 2022 2 repositories listed
  We study the problem of safe and intention-aware robot navigation in dense and interactive crowds.
• Quantum Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robot Navigation Tasks
  24 Feb 2022 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 9 samples · 9 unverified
  We utilize hybrid quantum deep reinforcement learning to learn navigation tasks for a simple, wheeled robot in simulated environments of increasing complexity.
• Detecting danger in gridworlds using Gromov's Link Condition
  17 Jan 2022 2 repositories listed
  We initiate a study of gridworlds using the mathematical framework of reconfigurable systems and state complexes due to Abrams, Ghrist & Peterson.
• Towards real-world navigation with deep differentiable planners
  8 Aug 2021 2 repositories listed
  To avoid the potentially hazardous trial-and-error of reinforcement learning, we focus on differentiable planners such as Value Iteration Networks (VIN), which are trained offline from safe expert demonstrations.
• End-to-End Egospheric Spatial Memory
  15 Feb 2021 2 repositories listed
  Spatial memory, or the ability to remember and recall specific locations and objects, is central to autonomous agents' ability to carry out tasks in real environments.
• Multi-view Depth Estimation using Epipolar Spatio-Temporal Networks
  26 Nov 2020 2 repositories listed
  We present a novel method for multi-view depth estimation from a single video, which is a critical task in various applications, such as perception, reconstruction and robot navigation.
• Decentralized Structural-RNN for Robot Crowd Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning
  9 Nov 2020 2 repositories listed
  We demonstrate that our model outperforms previous methods in challenging crowd navigation scenarios.
• Robot Navigation in Constrained Pedestrian Environments using Reinforcement Learning
  16 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed
  Navigating fluently around pedestrians is a necessary capability for mobile robots deployed in human environments, such as buildings and homes.
• Semantics through Time: Semi-supervised Segmentation of Aerial Videos with Iterative Label Propagation
  2 Oct 2020 2 repositories listed
  Motivated by the lack of a large video aerial dataset, we also introduce Ruralscapes, a new dataset with high resolution (4K) images and manually-annotated dense labels every 50 frames - the largest of its kind, to the…
• Object Goal Navigation using Goal-Oriented Semantic Exploration
  1 Jul 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 3 of 6 samples · 3 unverified
  We propose a modular system called, `Goal-Oriented Semantic Exploration' which builds an episodic semantic map and uses it to explore the environment efficiently based on the goal object category.
• PyRobot: An Open-source Robotics Framework for Research and Benchmarking
  19 Jun 2019 2 repositories listed
  This paper introduces PyRobot, an open-source robotics framework for research and benchmarking.
• Correlation Flow: Robust Optical Flow Using Kernel Cross-Correlators
  20 Feb 2018 2 repositories listed
  Robust velocity and position estimation is crucial for autonomous robot navigation.
• Self-supervised Deep Reinforcement Learning with Generalized Computation Graphs for Robot Navigation
  29 Sep 2017 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  To address the need to learn complex policies with few samples, we propose a generalized computation graph that subsumes value-based model-free methods and model-based methods, with specific instantiations interpolating…
• A Fast Ellipse Detector Using Projective Invariant Pruning
  26 Aug 2016 2 repositories listed
  Detecting elliptical objects from an image is a central task in robot navigation and industrial diagnosis where the detection time is always a critical issue.
• Adversarial Attacks and Detection in Visual Place Recognition for Safer Robot Navigation
  19 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  Stand-alone Visual Place Recognition (VPR) systems have little defence against a well-designed adversarial attack, which can lead to disastrous consequences when deployed for robot navigation.
• DualMap: Online Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping for Natural Language Navigation in Dynamic Changing Scenes
  2 Jun 2025 1 repository listed
  We introduce DualMap, an online open-vocabulary mapping system that enables robots to understand and navigate dynamically changing environments through natural language queries.
• Reinforcement Learning for Ballbot Navigation in Uneven Terrain
  23 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Ballbot (i.
• Development of a PPO-Reinforcement Learned Walking Tripedal Soft-Legged Robot using SOFA
  12 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Robot navigation performance is a key metric to be considered for measuring the success resolution.
• Skeletonization Quality Evaluation: Geometric Metrics for Point Cloud Analysis in Robotics
  29 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  Skeletonization is a powerful tool for shape analysis, rooted in the inherent instinct to understand an object's morphology.
• Multi-modal Knowledge Distillation-based Human Trajectory Forecasting
  28 Mar 2025 1 repository listed
  The comprehensive knowledge of a teacher model trained with trajectory, human pose, and text is distilled into a student model using only trajectory or human pose as a sole supplement.

Syntology lines on 8 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.