One Map to Find Them All: Real-time Open-Vocabulary Mapping for Zero-shot Multi-Object Navigation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11764v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:44:08 GMT
• Title: One Map to Find Them All: Real-time Open-Vocabulary Mapping for Zero-shot Multi-Object Navigation
• Authors: Finn Lukas Busch, Timon Homberger, Jesús Ortega-Peimbert, Quantao Yang, Olov Andersson,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a new benchmark for zero-shot multi-object navigation. We build a reusable open-vocabulary feature map tailored for real-time object search. We demonstrate that it outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches both on single and multi-object navigation tasks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The capability to efficiently search for objects in complex environments is fundamental for many real-world robot applications. Recent advances in open-vocabulary vision models have resulted in semantically-informed object navigation methods that allow a robot to search for an arbitrary object without prior training. However, these zero-shot methods have so far treated the environment as unknown for each consecutive query. In this paper we introduce a new benchmark for zero-shot multi-object navigation, allowing the robot to leverage information gathered from previous searches to more efficiently find new objects. To address this problem we build a reusable open-vocabulary feature map tailored for real-time object search. We further propose a probabilistic-semantic map update that mitigates common sources of errors in semantic feature extraction and leverage this semantic uncertainty for informed multi-object exploration. We evaluate our method on a set of object navigation tasks in both simulation as well as with a real robot, running in real-time on a Jetson Orin AGX. We demonstrate that it outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches both on single and multi-object navigation tasks. Additional videos, code and the multi-object navigation benchmark will be available on https://finnbsch.github.io/OneMap.

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