Trustworthy navigation with variational policy in deep reinforcement learning
Trust-Nav consistently outperforms deterministic DRL approaches, particularly in complicated environments involving noisy conditions and adversarial attacks. This integration of uncertainty into the policy network promotes safer and more reliable navigation, especially in complex or unpredictable environments. Trust-Nav offers a step toward deployable, self-aware robotic systems capable of recognizing and responding to their own limitations.
Authors
- Linda M. Ernst (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0104-5107)
- Dimah Dera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7168-5858)
- Bryan Pedraza
- Rohaan Nadeem
- Karla Bockrath
Institutions
- Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
- The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- Published
- 2025-10-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2025.1652050
- Primary Topic
- Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00