OdorSpaces: A Physics-Based Simulation Platform for Visual-Olfactory Embodied Navigation
arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) RSS Feed · Changyeon Lee, Kelin Yu, Zheng Wei, Shuna Ni, Ruohan Gao · Published on Readzer
Summary
Researchers introduced OdorSpaces, a physics-based simulation platform and benchmark for visual-olfactory embodied navigation, augmenting Habitat-Sim with 3D odor transport and dispersion from Fire Dynamics Simulator. It includes two source-seeking scenarios: invisible gas-leak localization and early-stage fire localization. An initial multimodal reinforcement learning policy integrating visual and olfactory observations outperformed baselines, providing a reference for future research.
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