OSCAR: Obstacle Survival Curves for Adaptive Robot Navigation [CoRL 2026 Spotlight Paper]

OSCAR is an adaptive obstacle-avoidance framework for graph-based robot navigation in environments with temporary obstacles. Instead of always waiting for an obstacle to clear or immediately rerouting, OSCAR learns class-specific obstacle survival curves online and uses them to decide when waiting is worthwhile. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00990