learning-adaptive-safety-margins-for-visual-navigation-1a4bd4cc·1 events·first seen Aliases: Learning Adaptive Safety Margins for Visual Navigation
A new arXiv paper proposes a context-conditioned safety critic that learns adaptive clearance preferences for ranking diffusion-based trajectory proposals in indoor robot navigation. The critic decomposes into safety, efficiency, and distance-constraint matching terms, trained with privileged ESDF geometry in simulation and distilled into a perception-only selector via teacher-student learning. The method achieves top success rate and SPL on PointGoal navigation benchmarks (HM3D, MP3D) and transfers zero-shot to a Unitree G1 humanoid robot without task-specific tuning.