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Brain-inspired spatial intelligence for embodied agents.

Shouwei Ruan1,2, Liyuan Wang1,3, Caixin Kang2

  • 1Department of Computer Science and Technology, Institute for AI, BNRist Center, Tsinghua-Bosch Joint ML Center, THBI Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

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This study introduces Brain-inspired Spatial Cognition for Navigation (BSC-Nav), a framework enhancing embodied agents with structured spatial memory. BSC-Nav improves navigation performance and adaptability in complex environments by building cognitive maps.

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Area of Science:

  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Spatial cognition is crucial for goal-directed behavior, relying on landmarks, routes, and survey knowledge.
  • Current multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for embodied agents lack structured spatial memory, leading to reactive behaviors and limited adaptability.
  • Existing systems struggle with generalization in complex, real-world navigation tasks.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present Brain-inspired Spatial Cognition for Navigation (BSC-Nav), a unified framework for structured spatial memory in embodied agents.
  • To enable agents to construct allocentric cognitive maps from egocentric data and contextual cues.
  • To dynamically retrieve and utilize spatial knowledge aligned with semantic goals for improved navigation.

Main Methods:

  • Developed BSC-Nav, a framework integrating egocentric trajectories and contextual cues to build allocentric cognitive maps.
  • Implemented dynamic retrieval of spatial knowledge tailored to specific navigation goals.
  • Integrated BSC-Nav with state-of-the-art multi-modal large language models (MLLMs).

Main Results:

  • Achieved state-of-the-art efficacy and efficiency in diverse embodied navigation tasks.
  • Significantly improved success weighted by path length in instance-level navigation (17.6% to 44.9%).
  • Enhanced zero-shot, long-horizon instruction-following capabilities (42.7% to 53.1%) and demonstrated real-world applicability.

Conclusions:

  • BSC-Nav provides a scalable approach to general-purpose spatial intelligence for embodied agents.
  • The framework overcomes limitations of reactive navigation in current MLLMs.
  • Demonstrated the potential for robust, adaptive, and efficient embodied navigation through structured spatial memory.