An Efficient Insect-inspired Approach for Visual Point-goal Navigation

ArXi:2601.16806v2 Announce Type: replace In this work we develop a novel insect-inspired model for visual point-goal navigation. This combines abstracted models of two insect brain structures that have been implicated, respectively, in associative learning and path integration. We draw an analogy between the formal benchmark of the Habitat point-goal navigation task and the ability of insects to discover, learn, and refine visually guided paths around obstacles between a discovered food location and their nest.