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DM$^3$-Nav: Decentralized Multi-Agent Multimodal Multi-Object Semantic Navigation

Multiagent Systems 2026-04-27 v1 Robotics

Abstract

We present DM3^3-Nav, a fully decentralized multi-agent semantic navigation system supporting multimodal open-vocabulary goal specification and multi-object missions. In our setting, decentralization implies operation without a central coordinator, global map aggregation, or shared global state at runtime. Robots operate autonomously and coordinate through ad-hoc pairwise communication, exchanging local maps, goal status, and navigation intent without synchronization. An implicit task allocation mechanism combining intent broadcasting and distance-weighted frontier selection reduces redundant exploration while preserving decentralized operation. Evaluations on HM3DSem scenes using the HM3Dv0.2 and GOAT-Bench datasets demonstrate that DM3^3-Nav matches or exceeds centralized and shared-map baselines while eliminating single points of failure inherent in centralized architectures. Finally, we validate our approach in a real-world office environment using two mobile robots, demonstrating successful deployment relying entirely on onboard sensing and computation. A video of our real-world experiments is available online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QiUSCn5rIvtuTUqtuXLPgmt6S8x9-MCZ/view?usp=drive_link

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@article{arxiv.2604.22014,
  title  = {DM$^3$-Nav: Decentralized Multi-Agent Multimodal Multi-Object Semantic Navigation},
  author = {Amin Kashiri and Atharva Jamsandekar and Yasin Yazıcıoğlu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.22014},
  year   = {2026}
}
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