AI RESEARCH

Learning Vision-Based Omnidirectional Navigation: A Teacher-Student Approach Using Monocular Depth Estimation

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2603.01999v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Reliable obstacle avoidance in industrial settings demands 3D scene understanding, but widely used 2D LiDAR sensors perceive only a single horizontal slice of the environment, missing critical obstacles above or below the scan plane. We present a teacher-student framework for vision-based mobile robot navigation that eliminates the need for LiDAR sensors.