arXiv AI
Jul 14
RVN-Bench: A Benchmark for Reactive Visual Navigation
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation
Robots deployed in delivery, campus, and emergency-response settings often need to navigate from buildings to streets within a single continuous episode. Existing benchmarks usually evaluate indoor and outdoor navigation separately, and many abstract away robot execution, leaving exit finding, boundary traversal, adaptation, and kinodynamic failures underexplored.
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