Learning Your Way Without Map or Compass: Panoramic Target Driven Visual Navigation

David Watkins-Valls,Jingxi Xu,Nicholas Waytowich,Peter Allen,David Watkins-Valls,Jingxi Xu,Nicholas Waytowich,Peter Allen

We present a robot navigation system that uses an imitation learning framework to successfully navigate in complex environments. Our framework takes a pre-built 3D scan of a real environment and trains an agent from pre-generated expert trajectories to navigate to any position given a panoramic view of the goal and the current visual input without relying on map, compass, odometry, or relative pos...