AstraNav-World: World Model for Foresight Control and Consistency
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AstraNav-World: World Model for Foresight Control and Consistency.
Abstract
We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model for embodied navigation in open and dynamic environments. The model unifies multi-step visual prediction and action sequence reasoning into a single probabilistic framework by combining diffusion-based video generation with a vision-language policy. A bidirectional constraint mechanism enforces both the executability of predicted futures and the physical consistency of actions, which largely mitigates error accumulation in the traditional “predict-then-plan” pipeline. Experiments on diverse navigation benchmarks show improved trajectory accuracy and task success rate, and the model exhibits strong zero-shot generalization in real-world tests.
Introduction
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- Why foresight control is crucial for embodied agents in open worlds;
- Limitations of decoupled prediction and planning pipelines;
- The target audience (CV / robotics / embodied AI researchers and engineers).
Method
1. Problem Definition
Clearly state the embodied navigation setting and evaluation protocol, and define what “foresight control” and “consistency” mean in this work.
2. Approach
Describe the AstraNav-World architecture:
- multi-module design combining diffusion video generator and VL policy;
- training objectives for action-conditioned visual prediction and policy learning;
- bidirectional constraints that tie predicted futures to executable actions.
3. Experiments
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- benchmarks, metrics and baselines;
- ablations on each key module and training objective;
- zero-shot transfer from simulation to real-world environments.
4. Results and Analysis
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- trajectory and success-rate improvements;
- what happens when coupling between vision and action is removed;
- qualitative examples that illustrate better foresight and consistency.
Conclusion and Future Work
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- deployment to real robots;
- extension to interaction / manipulation tasks;
- richer multi-modal inputs and better interpretability.