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OASIS: Optimization-Aware Subgoal Inference with Safety Constraints for Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation
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arXiv:2611.11996v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Navigation in dynamic environments requires mobile robots to make progress toward their goals while respecting motion limits and avoiding surrounding obstacles. Learned subgoal policies can guide model predictive control beyond its local prediction horizon, but a geometrically suitable subgoal does not necessarily lead to a successfully solved control problem. This paper proposes OASIS, a hierarchical navigation framework that incorporates recent optimization outcomes into reinforcement learning-based subgoal generation. A high-level policy trained using Soft Actor--Critic generates local subgoals, while a nonlinear model predictive controller tracks them subject to motion limits, geometric collision-avoidance constraints, and embedded high-order control barrier function constraints. The outcomes of controller optimizations over each subgoal interval are summarized and provided to the policy at its next decision, without requiring additional optimization calls. The framework is evaluated in five navigation scenarios with static and moving obstacles, including dense interactions and sensing uncertainty. Comparisons with hierarchical and direct-goal control variants show that OASIS achieves the highest aggregate navigation success. Matched comparisons across three training seeds further show a consistent success advantage over the otherwise identical hierarchy without optimization-status input. The selected-policy comparison also shows fewer primary optimization failures with similar mean controller time.
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