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Dyna-LfLH: Learning Agile Navigation in Dynamic Environments from Learned Hallucination

Dyna-LfLH: Learning Agile Navigation in Dynamic Environments from Learned Hallucination.
Saad Abdul Ghani, Zizhao Wang, Peter Stone, and and Xuesu Xiao.
In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 2025.

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Abstract

This paper introduces Dynamic Learning from Learned Hallucination (Dyna-LfLH), aself-supervised method for training motion planners to navigate environments withdense and dynamic obstacles. Classical planners struggle with dense,unpredictable obstacles due to limited computation, while learning-based plannersface challenges in acquiring high-quality demonstrations for imitation learningor dealing with exploration inefficiencies in reinforcement learning. Building onLearning from Hallucination (LfH), which synthesizes training data from pastsuccessful navigation experiences in simpler environments, Dyna-LfLH incorporatesdynamic obstacles by generating them through a learned latent distribution. Thisenables efficient and safe motion planner training. We evaluate Dyna-LfLH on aground robot in both simulated and real environments, achieving up to a 25 percentimprovement in success rate compared to baselines.

BibTeX Entry

@InProceedings{dyna_lflh_icra_2025,
  author   = {Saad Abdul Ghani and Zizhao Wang and Peter Stone and and Xuesu Xiao},
  title    = {Dyna-LfLH: Learning Agile Navigation in Dynamic Environments from Learned Hallucination},
  booktitle = {International Conference  on Intelligent Robots and Systems},
  year     = {2025},
  month    = {October},
  location = {Hangzhou, CHINA},
  abstract = {This paper introduces Dynamic Learning from Learned Hallucination (Dyna-LfLH), a
self-supervised method for training motion planners to navigate environments with
dense and dynamic obstacles. Classical planners struggle with dense,
unpredictable obstacles due to limited computation, while learning-based planners
face challenges in acquiring high-quality demonstrations for imitation learning
or dealing with exploration inefficiencies in reinforcement learning. Building on
Learning from Hallucination (LfH), which synthesizes training data from past
successful navigation experiences in simpler environments, Dyna-LfLH incorporates
dynamic obstacles by generating them through a learned latent distribution. This
enables efficient and safe motion planner training. We evaluate Dyna-LfLH on a
ground robot in both simulated and real environments, achieving up to a 25 percent
improvement in success rate compared to baselines.
  },
}

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