WAVE-Go: World-Model Navigation with Adaptive Execution for Wheel-Legged Robots

RESUMO

World models can anticipate the consequences of navigation actions, but predicted action sequences may become invalid during execution, especially when wheel-legged robots encounter dynamic obstacles or change locomotion modes. We propose WAVE-Go, an image-goal navigation framework that separates world-action prediction from interruptible command execution. Its executor adaptively selects an action prefix and cancels pending commands when updated observations invalidate execution. A conditional-risk formulation specifies prefix selection under an estimated cumulative failure budget, while posture and locomotion-mode transitions require clearance, stability, and task-evidence checks. In the reported navigation evaluation, WAVE-Go achieves 74.1% in-distribution success and 63.3% dynamic out-of-distribution success, exceeding the strongest baseline by 4.7 and 7.7 percentage points, respectively, while reducing collisions from 4.4 to 2.9 per 100 m. Compared with interruptible fixed four-command execution, WAVE-Go raises success by 4.0 percentage points while reducing replanning frequency by 51.2% and collision rate by 6.5%. Execution ablations also show that runtime interruption improves success, collision rate, and reaction latency at the cost of additional replanning. These results support adaptive, interruptible execution as a means of balancing navigation performance and planning overhead. Code is available at this https URL .