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Learning Composable Behavior Embeddings for Long-horizon Visual Navigation

Robotics 2021-02-22 v1

Abstract

Learning high-level navigation behaviors has important implications: it enables robots to build compact visual memory for repeating demonstrations and to build sparse topological maps for planning in novel environments. Existing approaches only learn discrete, short-horizon behaviors. These standalone behaviors usually assume a discrete action space with simple robot dynamics, thus they cannot capture the intricacy and complexity of real-world trajectories. To this end, we propose Composable Behavior Embedding (CBE), a continuous behavior representation for long-horizon visual navigation. CBE is learned in an end-to-end fashion; it effectively captures path geometry and is robust to unseen obstacles. We show that CBE can be used to performing memory-efficient path following and topological mapping, saving more than an order of magnitude of memory than behavior-less approaches.

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@article{arxiv.2102.09781,
  title  = {Learning Composable Behavior Embeddings for Long-horizon Visual Navigation},
  author = {Xiangyun Meng and Yu Xiang and Dieter Fox},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.09781},
  year   = {2021}
}
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