ODG-NoMaD: Overhead-Camera Direction-Guided NoMaD
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arXiv:2608.21395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: NoMaD [31] is a learned vision-navigation policy that unifies goal-conditioned navigation and exploration in a single goal-masked diffusion policy. In an unseen environment, however - where neither a goal image nor a topological map is available - it can only explore undirectedly, wandering without global awareness. We present ODG-NoMaD, which gives NoMaD's exploration mode a global sense of where to proceed, without retraining the policy. An overhead depth camera is used once on deployment to build an occupancy map and plan a global path, whic
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.21395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: NoMaD [31] is a learned vision-navigation policy that unifies goal-conditioned navigation and exploration in a single goal-masked diffusion policy.
- In an unseen environment, however - where neither a goal image nor a topological map is available - it can only explore undirectedly, wandering without global awareness.
- We present ODG-NoMaD, which gives NoMaD's exploration mode a global sense of where to proceed, without retraining the policy.
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