Robotics: Science and Systems XV

A Behavioral Approach to Visual Navigation with Graph Localization Networks

Kevin Chen, Juan Pablo de Vicente, Gabriel Sepulveda, Fei Xia, Alvaro Soto, Marynel Vázquez, Silvio Savarese

Abstract:

Inspired by research in psychology, we introduce a behavioral approach for visual navigation using topological maps. Our goal is to enable a robot to navigate from one location to another, relying only on its visual observations and the topological map of the environment. To this end, we propose using graph neural networks for localizing the agent in the map, and decompose the action space into primitive behaviors implemented as convolutional or recurrent neural networks. Using the Gibson simulator and the Stanford 2D-3D-S dataset, we verify that our approach outperforms relevant baselines and is able to navigate in both seen and unseen indoor environments.

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Bibtex:

  
@INPROCEEDINGS{Savarese-RSS-19, 
    AUTHOR    = {Kevin Chen AND Juan Pablo de Vicente AND Gabriel Sepulveda AND Fei Xia AND Alvaro Soto AND Marynel Vázquez AND Silvio Savarese}, 
    TITLE     = {A Behavioral Approach to Visual Navigation with Graph Localization Networks}, 
    BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems}, 
    YEAR      = {2019}, 
    ADDRESS   = {FreiburgimBreisgau, Germany}, 
    MONTH     = {June}, 
    DOI       = {10.15607/RSS.2019.XV.010} 
}