マルチエージェント視覚言語ナビゲーションの体系化:定式化・ベンチマーク・手法
Systematic Multi-Agent Vision-and-Language Navigation: Formulation, Benchmark, and Method
複数ロボットが依存関係や資源制約のあるサブタスクを協調してこなす視覚言語ナビゲーションを初めて体系的に定式化し、大規模ベンチマークMAVLNと協調型ナビシステムTRISSを提案した論文。
分類: cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has largely focused on a single agent following a single instruction, yet many real-world applications require teams of robots to tackle tasks beyond the capabilities of any individual agent. We present Systematic Multi-Agent Vision-and-Language Navigation, providing, to our knowledge, the first systematic formalization of multi-agent VLN as a constrained coordination problem: each mission consists of subtasks carrying dependency and resource constraints (presence locks and holding chains). A verified four-stage crafting pipeline instantiates the task as MAVLN, comprising 11,724 episodes across 145 scenes with teams of up to four agents under three instruction regimes, accompanied by tailored constraint-aware metrics. We further present TRISS, a coordination-ready navigation system coupling an LLM-based subtask scheduler, a shared topological memory that turns each agent's exploration into team knowledge, and a conflict-aware execution mechanism that realizes simultaneous intentions as collision-free routes. Extensive experiments establish TRISS as a comprehensive baseline and reveal substantial room for improvement across scheduling, planning, and execution, highlighting the challenges of coordinating under MAVLN task constraints. Project page: https://xyz9911.github.io/mavln.