Can a Robot Walk the Robotic Dog: Triple-Zero Collaborative Navigation for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
About
We present Triple Zero Path Planning (TZPP), a collaborative framework for heterogeneous multi-robot systems that requires zero training, zero prior knowledge, and zero simulation. TZPP employs a coordinator--explorer architecture: a humanoid robot handles task coordination, while a quadruped robot explores and identifies feasible paths using guidance from a multimodal large language model. We implement TZPP on Unitree G1 and Go2 robots and evaluate it across diverse indoor and outdoor environments, including obstacle-rich and landmark-sparse settings. Experiments show that TZPP achieves robust, human-comparable efficiency and strong adaptability to unseen scenarios. By eliminating reliance on training and simulation, TZPP offers a practical path toward real-world deployment of heterogeneous robot cooperation. Our code and video are provided at: https://github.com/triple-zeropp/Triple-zero-robot-agent
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative Path Planning | Collaborative Path Planning Scenarios L-turn sofa search 1.0 (Scene 1) | Navigation Error (NE)2 | 2 | |
| Collaborative Path Planning | Collaborative Path Planning Scenarios Scene 2: unilateral-access narrow pillar 1.0 | Navigation Error (NE)1 | 2 | |
| Quadrupedal Agent Exploration | Scene 1 L-turn sofa search | NK2 | 2 | |
| Quadrupedal Agent Exploration | Scene 2 Unilateral-access narrow pillar | NK2 | 2 | |
| Quadrupedal Agent Exploration | Scene 3 Bilateral-passable pillar | NK2 | 2 | |
| Quadrupedal Agent Exploration | Scene Z-turn fire extinguisher localization 4 | NK Score4 | 2 | |
| Quadrupedal Agent Exploration | Scene 5 Ramp-mediated detour | NK Score6 | 2 | |
| Collaborative Path Planning | Collaborative Path Planning Scenarios Scene 3: bilateral-passable pillar 1.0 | Navigation Error (NE)2 | 2 | |
| Collaborative Path Planning | Collaborative Path Planning Scenarios Z-turn fire extinguisher localization 1.0 (Scene 4) | Navigation Error (NE)5 | 2 | |
| Collaborative Path Planning | Collaborative Path Planning Scenarios ramp-mediated detour 1.0 (Scene 5) | Number of Events (NE)6 | 2 |