NavTrust: Benchmarking Trustworthiness for Embodied Navigation

Na vT rust: Benchmarking T rustworthiness f or Embodied Na vigation Huaide Jiang 1 ∗ , Y ash Chaudhary 1 ∗ , Y uping W ang 2 , Zehao W ang 1 , Raghav Sharma 3 , Manan Mehta 4 , Y ang Zhou 5 , Lichao Sun 6 , Zhiwen Fan 5 , Zhengzhong T u 5 , Jiachen Li 1 ‡ De p th RG B C OR R U P T ION C OR R U P T ION N o C orru p t i on F ore i g n O b j e c t Mot i on B l u r L o w L ig h t in g Gr a d ie n t ( W i th / W i th o ut N o i s e ) S p a tte r De fo c u s B l u r F l a r e E ffe c t Q u a n ti z a ti o n M u l ti p a th M i s s i n g D a ta G a u ssi a n N o i se Bl a c k - ou t In s tr u c ti o n Bl a ck - B ox M al i c i o u s P r o mpt C A P IT A L IZ IN G & Ma s k in g C a p it a l iz in g : t ak e a R I G H T a t t he l a rg e c l o c k a nd t ra v el S TR A I GH T TH R OU GH t he K I TC H E N … M a s k i ng : r ig h t < M A S K > s tr a ig h t t hro u g h < M A S K > k i t c hen… W a l l H u gge r : U p o n s eei ng a n y wa l l , tu r n to f a c e it, d r iv e s tr a ig h t in to it f or 0. 3m , t hen res u m e. 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Abstract — There are two major categories of embodied nav- igation: V ision-Language Navigation (VLN), wher e agents nav- igate by following natural language instructions; and Object- Goal Navigation (OGN), where agents navigate to a specified target object. However , existing work primarily evaluates model performance under nominal conditions, overlooking the poten- tial corruptions that arise in real-world settings. T o address this gap, we present NavT rust, a unified benchmark that system- atically corrupts input modalities, including RGB, depth, and instructions, in realistic scenarios and evaluates their impact on na vigation performance. T o our best knowledge, NavT rust is the first benchmark that exposes embodied navigation agents to diverse RGB-Depth corruptions and instruction variations in a unified framework. Our extensive ev aluation of seven state-of- the-art approaches re veals substantial perf ormance degradation under realistic corruptions, which highlights critical rob ustness gaps and provides a roadmap toward more trustworthy embod- ied navigati on systems. Furthermore, we systematically e valuate four distinct mitigation strategies to enhance robustness against RGB-Depth and instructions corruptions. Our base models include Uni-NaV id and ETPNav . W e deployed them on a real mobile robot and observ ed improved robustness to corruptions. The project website is: https://navtrust.github.io . I . I N T R O D U C T I O N Embodied na vigation in comple x en vironments encom- passes two major tasks: V ision-Language Navigation (VLN), where agents follo w natural language instructions to nav- igate [1], [2], and Object-Goal Na vigation (OGN), where *Equal contrib ution ‡ Corresponding author . 1 H. Jiang, Y . Chaudhary , Z. W ang, and J. Li are with the T rustworthy Autonomous Systems Laboratory at the Univ ersity of California, Riverside, CA, USA. { huaidej, ychau008, jiachen.li } @ucr.edu 2 Y . W ang is with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. 3 R. Sharma is with W orkday , CA, USA. 4 M. Mehta is with the Uni versity of Southern California, CA, USA. 5 Y . Zhou, Z. Fan, Z. T u are with T exas A&M University , TX, USA. 6 L. Sun is with Lehigh Uni versity , P A, USA. agents search for specified tar gets [3]. Despite significant progress, current deep learning agents still lack the level of trustworthiness required for real-world deployment. State-of- the-art VLN agents hav e been sho wn to fail under minor linguistic perturbations [4], [5], while leading OGN agents degrade sharply under small domain shifts (e.g., lo w lighting, motion blur) [6], resulting in unreliable behaviors. Ho w- ev er , these vulnerabilities are largely overlooked by existing benchmarks, which typically report performance under clean, idealized input conditions. Current benchmarks also neglect depth-sensor corruptions and lack a unified frame work for systematically ev aluating robustness mitigation strategies. T o bridge these gaps, we introduce Na vT rust , the first unified benchmark for rigorously ev aluating the trustworthi- ness of both VLN and OGN agents. NavT rust systematically assesses performance under controlled corruptions that target both perception and language modalities. On the perceptual side, it includes a div erse set of RGB corruptions and, for the first time, depth sensor degradations. On the language side, we probe agent vulnerabilities using a variety of instruction corruptions, as illustrated in Fig. 1. By directly comparing each perturbed episode with its clean counterpart, our bench- mark enables a principled analysis of performance degrada- tion. Beyond diagnosing robustness failures, we present and ev aluate four mitigation strategies under realistic perturba- tions, and demonstrate that the observed robustness trends transfer from simulation to real-world, as shown in Fig. 2. Our main contributions are summarized as follows: 1) Benchmark. NavT rust is the first benchmark to unify trustworthiness ev aluation across both VLN and OGN tasks. Notably , we introduce nov el depth sensor corruptions besides a comprehensiv e suite of RGB and linguistic corruptions. 2) Pr otocol. W e establish and will release a standardized ev aluation protocol, setting a ne w community standard for benchmarking the reliability of embodied navigation agents. 3) Findings. The extensi ve ev aluation reveals vulnerabilities and detailed failure modes in state-of-the-art (SO T A) na viga- tion agents, pinpointing concrete directions for improvement. 4) Mitigation Strategies. W e conduct the first head-to- head comparison of four key rob ustness enhancement strate- gies, including data augmentation, kno wledge distillation, adapter tuning, and LLM fine-tuning, providing an empirical roadmap for developing more trustworthy embodied agents. I I . R E L A T E D W O R K V ision Language Navigation and Object Goal Naviga- tion. The VLN field was established by the Room-to-Room (R2R) dataset [1] and Room-across-Room (RxR) dataset [2], which pair English instructions with Matterport3D [7] or Habitat-Matterport 3D Dataset environments [8]. Their suc- cessor , VLN-CE [9], increases realism by introducing a continuous action space. W e follow the multilingual RxR dataset along with R2R, which tests the robustness against more complex instructions with denser object distributions and finer category distinctions to probe scalability . In con- trast, OGN is a visual task where an agent must find a specified object, typically in the MP3D or HM3D envi- ronments. Recent VLNs leverage vision-language encoders or LLMs to map language instructions to enable zero- shot generalization to unseen en vironments. State-of-the-art methods include NaV id [10] and Uni-NaV id [11], which operate without maps, odometry , or depth sensing; and ETPNav [12], which decomposes navig ation into high-le vel planning and low-le vel control via online topological map- ping. Recent OGN methods have shifted to ward transformer- based agents that reason over geometry and semantics. This trend began with approaches like Acti ve Neural SLAM [13], which combine learned SLAM with frontier-based explo- ration. While some end-to-end baselines incorporate depth as a latent feature [14], [15], they generally do not achieve competitiv e performance. More recent systems improve zero- shot generalization by integrating large pre-trained models: VLFM [16] employs a VLM to rank exploration frontiers, while L3MVN [17] lev erages LLM-based commonsense pri- ors. Other methods include PSL [18] for long-range planning in cluttered environments and the lightweight WMNav [19] for real-time monocular navigation. T rustworthiness in Embodied Navigation. Evaluating and enhancing agent trustworthiness spans perceptual, lin- guistic, and training-based robustness. Recent benchmarks, such as EmbodiedBench [20] and P AR TNR [21], primarily focus on multimodal LLMs or high-le vel planning rather than sensor- and instruction-lev el failures in embodied navigation. 1) P er ceptual Robustness. Prior work (e.g., RobustNa v [22]) reports substantial performance degradation under visual and motion corruptions but focuses on RGB or photometric effects and dynamics. Depth-sensor degradations are gen- erally overlooked. NavT rust addresses this limitation by ev aluating robustness under both RGB corruptions and a nov el suite of depth-sensor corruptions. 2) Linguistic Robust- ness. Linguistic perturbations (e.g., omissions, swaps) can reduce task success by 25% [23], yet existing benchmarks rarely introduce systematic instruction corruptions. NavT rust expands this space by incorporating masking, stylistic or personality shifts, capitalization emphasis, and black-/white- box prompt attacks to rigorously stress-test VLN models. 3) Robustness via T raining Strate gies. While prior work has explored teacher-student distillation and parameter-ef ficient fine-tuning (PEFT) or adapters in other domains, they do not target the trustworthiness of embodied navig ation agents. T o the best of our knowledge, NavT rust is the first benchmark to systematically ev aluate corruption-aware data augmenta- tion, teacher–student distillation, lightweight adapters, and an instruction-sanitizing LLM within a unified framework for improving VLN and OGN robustness. I I I . N A V T RU S T B E N C H M A R K NavT rust is built on a standardized foundation to enable fair comparisons across different navigation paradigms. The benchmark uses the validation set (i.e., the unseen split) from the Habitat-Matterport3D dataset [8] for OGN; and R2R [1] and RxR [2] datasets for VLN. This setup ensures a robust ev aluation of both model generalization and trustworthiness. T o facilitate direct comparisons across VLN and OGN meth- ods, we align the start and goal locations for both tasks within each scene. This alignment guarantees that language- conditioned and object-driv en agents are e valuated under identical spatial and environmental conditions. W e introduce three types of corruptions and mitigation strategies. A. RGB Image Corruption W e adopt eight types of RGB image corruptions that emulate real-world camera failures to ev aluate the robustness of agents. Inspired by ImageNet-C [24] and En vEdit [5], we adapt these corruptions for indoor navigation. While robot motion dynamics and geometric transformations (e.g., pose noise, wheel slip, calibration errors) are critical sources of failure, NavT rust deliberately focuses on perceptual ro- bustness. Many motion-induced failures manifest visually; for instance, high-speed vibrations appear as motion blur . By directly modeling these visual artifacts rather than the underlying control disturbances, we isolate the robustness of the perception-policy pipeline. This approach ensures the benchmark remains simulator-agnostic and reproducible. Motion Blur simulates rapid camera mov ement by applying a uniform blur kernel to the RGB channels and blending the result with the original image. This mimics scenarios like moving too quickly during navigation. Low-Lighting w/ or w/o Noise mimics an unevenly lit en vironment by applying a gradient-based darkening mask. This approach is more realistic than a uniform brightness reduction, as it reflects the localized light sources typically found in indoor scenes. Meanwhile, the noise captures the behavior of CMOS sensors under low-lighting conditions using the model [25]. This adds a combination of Poisson- distributed photon shot noise, T ukey Lambda-distributed read noise, Gaussian row noise, and quantization noise. Spatter simulates lens contamination from dust or liquid Te a che r - S t u d ent D i sti lla ti o n D a t a Au g ment a t i on A dapt e r L L M F i ne T u ni ng O r ig in a l I n pu t Da t a Co rru pt e d I n pu t Da t a T ra i n a bl e M o de l L os s C a lcu la t i on G ro u n d T ru t h G ra di e n t Up d a t e O r ig in a l I n p u t D a t a Co rru pt e d I n pu t Da t a F ix e d T ea c h er Mo d el T ask L o ss G ro u n d T ru t h T r a i n a b l e St u de n t M o de l D i s t i lla t i on L os s ( O u t p u t L o g it s a n d I n t er m ed i a t e F ea t u r es ) + T ot a l L os s = B a s e Mo d el ( P r e - t ra i n e d LLa M A 3. 2, Q u a n t iz e d ) Us i n g P a i r e d D a t a : I n p ut ( M a l i c i o us / S ty l i z e d ) : T ur n r i g h t a t th e p r o m i n e n t t i mep i ec e, p ro c eed d i rec t l y t h ro u g h t h e k i t c h en a rea … T ar g e t ( C l e an / C an o n i c al R 2R ) : T ak e a r i g h t at t h e l ar g e c l o c k a nd t r a v e l s t r a i g ht t hr o u g h t he k i t c he n. . . Sa f e g u a rd L L M : St ri p u n s a f e t e x t C a n on i ca li z e in s t r u c t io n s T r a i n a b l e A da pt e r F ix e d Mo d el O r ig in a l I n pu t Da t a Co rru pt e d I n pu t Da t a G ro u n d T ru t h L o ss C a lcu la t i on G ra di e n t Up d a t e Fig. 2: An illustration of the four mitigation strategies. splashes. Randomly distributed noise blobs are overlaid on the image to scatter light and cause partial occlusion. Flare emulates lens flare caused by light sources like over - head lights or sunlight from a windo w . It is modeled as a radial gradient with a randomly chosen center to mimic optical scattering artifacts. Defocus simulates out-of-focus blur resulting from an im- proper focal length adjustment. A Gaussian blur with ran- domized kernel width is applied to reduce image sharpness, degrading object boundary clarity and visual texture. For eign Object models real-world occlusions, such as a smudge partially co vering the lens, by adding a black circular region at the center of the frame to obscure part of the scene. Black-Out simulates complete frame loss due to sensor dropout or hardware failure. With a fixed probability , the entire image frame is replaced with a black frame, testing the agent’ s resilience to intermittent loss of visual input. B. Depth Corruption Depth data serves as the geometric backbone of many navigation systems by enabling collision av oidance, path planning, and occupancy mapping. Howe ver , the fidelity of this modality is often taken for granted. T o stress-test this ov erlooked yet critical sensor input, we introduce four types of depth corruptions that simulate common failure modes in indoor depth cameras. Such corruptions are essential for robustness e valuation, as errors in the depth map can lead to incorrect distance estimation and flawed planning. Gaussian Noise adds Gaussian noise to emulate sensor jitter , a common issue in low-cost cameras, long-range measure- ments, or under variable indoor lighting conditions [26]. This noise can cause VLN agents to misestimate distances or OGN agents to ov erlook nearby objects. Missing Data simulates in valid depth readings from reflec- tiv e or transparent surfaces (e.g., glass) by masking out pixels to simulate incorrectly large or missing depth values [27], [28]. These information gaps may disrupt path planning or mislead object localization. Multipath emulates errors from time-of-flight (T oF) sensors that occur when reflected light bounces off corners or glossy surfaces. [29], [30]. The resulting depth “echo” may cause ov erestimation near structural edges, distorting the perceiv ed scene geometry . Quantization reduces the ef fectiv e resolution of depth by rounding values, which simulates lo w-bit quantization [31], [32] common in resource-constrained deployments for re- ducing bandwidth or computation. This loss of detail may obscure small obstacles or fine geometric features, thereby impairing navigation precision. C. Instruction Corruption Natural language instructions are a core component of VLN, guiding agents through free-form descriptions of ob- jects, actions, and spatial cues [1]. T o ev aluate instruction sensitivity , we systematically manipulate the instructions along fi ve dimensions. These corruptions are designed to emulate real-world linguistic v ariation and adversarial inputs, testing a model’ s dependence on surface form, its tokeniza- tion sensitivity , and its vulnerability to prompt injection. Diversity of Instructions in volv es generating four stylistic variants (i.e., friendly , novice, professional, and formal) for each instruction using the LLaMA-3.1 model [33]. These variants differ in sentence structure, vocabulary richness, and tone, allowing us to test ho w well models generalize to different communication styles. Capitalizing is where we emphasize key tokens in an instruction by capitalizing semantically salient words (e.g., nouns, verbs, propositions) identified using spaCy’ s part-of- speech and dependency parsers [34]. This simple change tests how models react to altered emphasis. Masking is where we replaced non-essential tokens, such as stopwords or adjecti ves with low spatial rele vance, with a special [MASK] token. This method ev aluates whether the model depends on contextually redundant words or can infer navigational intent from minimal linguistic cues. Black-Box Malicious Prompts are misleading, adversar- ial phrases prepended to the original instruction without modifying its core content. These syntactically fluent but semantically disrupti ve phrases are designed to confuse the model or redirect its attention, representing realistic black- box threats from user error or intentionally misleading inputs. White-Box Malicious Prompts are adversarial phrases in- jected directly into the system prompt used by large vision- language models, thereby altering the model’ s decision- making context. These white-box attacks exploit the internal mechanisms of prompt-based models by inserting crafted cues into the initialization prompt. D. Mitigation Strate gy T o address the vulnerabilities identified by our benchmark, we in vestigate four strategies for enhancing agent robustness on a subset of R2R dataset. These complementary mecha- nisms provide a constructi ve path to ward developing more trustworthy and resilient embodied navigation systems. Corruption-A ware Data A ugmentation introduces RGB and depth corruption alongside clean frames during train- ing. This can be applied either per-frame (transient), where corruption is randomly sampled for each individual frame, or per-episode (persistent), where a single type of corruption is selected and applied consistently across all frames within an entire episode. Additionally , a distributed variant weights the sampling of corruption types based on prior ev aluation, assigning higher probabilities to those exhibiting poorer performance to prioritize robustness gains. T eacher -Student Distillation consists of a teacher model (trained in data augmentation strategies) that guides the student model to process corrupted inputs [35]. By unifying their stepwise action spaces and optimizing a composite objectiv e function (imitation learning, policy-KL diver gence, and feature-MSE), this method transfers the teacher’ s robust decision making logic to the student model. TS method trains the student model to be resilient by internalizing the teacher’ s robust reasoning. Adapters known as parameter-ef ficient adapters which are added to the depth and RGB pathways, with just 1-3% of the weights [36]. Each adapter has a residual bottleneck in the perceptual pathway that learns correcti ve deltas while the backbone remains frozen. T o stabilize the panoramic representation, a fusion of per-vie w embeddings using re- liability weights is done for each view , which estimates a reliability score from the feature magnitude relati ve to the panorama average, down-weights outliers with a capped decay , and then computes a normalized weighted average across views. This pairing reduces the impact of noisy or missing perception values and produces a more stable panorama without retraining the full encoder . Safeguard LLM uses a fine-tuned quantized LLaMA 3.2 (8-bit) to canonicalize free-form inputs into Room-Across- Room (RxR) [2] instructions. W e also explore prompt en- gineering on OpenAI o3 as an alternativ e approach. It runs once per episode to strip unsafe text and paraphrase inputs without altering the core intent, reducing instruction-induced failures with negligible latency and memory ov erhead. I V . E X P E R I M E N T S W e ev aluate sev en SOT A agents: three for VLN, in- cluding ETPNa v [12], a long-horizon topological planner; NaV id [10], a transformer-based model for dynamic en viron- ments; and Uni-NaV id [11], a video-based vision-language- action model for unifying embodied navigation tasks, and four for OGN, including WMNav [19], a lightweight RGB planner; L3MVN [17] for fine-grained navigation; PSL [18], which uses programmatic supervision; and VLFM [16], a vision-language foundation model with strong zero-shot capabilities. The input modalities for each agent are summa- rized in T able I. Each RGB-Depth corruption is gov erned by T ABLE I: A vailable corruption types for each model. Corruption NaV id-7B Uni-NaV id ETPNav L3MVN WMNav VLFM PSL RGB ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Depth ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Instruction ✓ ✓ ✓ a se verity intensity s ∈ [0 , 1] ; we set s = 0 . 5 by default to induce significant but realistic degradation follo wing prior work [22], [37]. Furthermore, we test v arious mitigation strategies. For RGB-Depth corruption, we conduct robustness enhancement experiments on ETPNa v , as sev eral baseline models are training-free, and publicly av ailable training code for the remaining models is limited. For linguistic corruptions, we test our mitigation experiments on all VLN models. Besides, we conducted experiments in real-world en vironments. A. Evaluation Metrics Progress in embodied navigation relies on standardized metrics that are widely adopted across benchmarks. These metrics provide task-agnostic e valuations of agent beha vior , which enable consistent comparisons between VLN and OGN. W e adopt the following metrics in our experiments: Success Rate (SR) : Measures the percentage of episodes where the agent reaches the goal. Success-weighted Path Length (SPL) : A normalized metric (0-1) that balances goal completion with navigation effi- ciency by weighting path optimality with success [1]. It is formally defined as: SPL = 1 N P N i =1 S i L ⋆ i max( L i ,L ⋆ i ) where S i is the binary success indicator for episode i , L i is the path length executed by the agent, and L ⋆ i is the geodesic shortest-path distance from start to goal. Perf ormance Retention Score (PRS) : Quantifies robustness by reporting the fraction of clean performance an agent retains on av erage. For a gi ven performance metric m ∈ { SR , SPL } , the PRS for agent a is defined as: PRS m ( a ) = 1 K P K k =1 m a,k m a, 0 where m a, 0 represents the agent’ s perfor- mance on the clean split and m a,k is the performance under corruption k within a suite of K corruptions. W e report PRS based on SR and SPL. PRS ∈ [0 , 1] ; 1 denotes perfect robustness, while 0 indicates total failure across the suite. B. Results and Analysis RGB Image Corruptions. In Fig. 3, mild photometric corruptions (e.g., defocus, flare, spatter) produce a moderate impact, reducing success rate (SR) by about 6-7% on av- erage. In particular , RGB-only agents (Uni-NaV id, NaV id, and PSL) are penalized more heavily than depth-in volv ed (i.e., use depth image to generate a map when making a decision) or language-conditioned methods. This trend is observed with Black-out and Foreign-object corruptions: for Black-out, depth-in volv ed agents (ETPNav and L3MVN) drop 15% (RxR) and 0%, while RGB-only agents (NaV id, Uni-NaV id, and PSL) drop 22% (RxR), 25% (RxR), and 27%, respectively . For Foreign-object corruption, RGB-only agents (NaV id, Uni-NaV id, and PSL) drop roughly 13% (RxR), 13% (RxR), and 28%, respectiv ely . Low-lighting generally degrades performance, and when combined with noise, causes the steepest average SR drop for RGB-only ETPNav (R2R) ETPNav (RxR) NaVid-7B (R2R) NaVid-7B (RxR) Uni-NaVid (RxR) WMNav L3MVN PSL VLFM PRS-SR (↑) PRS-SPL (↑) Uncorrupted Motion blur L-L (w/o noise) L-L (w/ noise) Spatter Flare Defocus Foreign object Black-out 0.86 0.89 0.63 0.62 0.64 0.86 0.89 0.60 0.94 0.80 0.87 0.66 0.64 0.64 0.84 0.87 0.53 0.94 65/0.58 56/0.45 40/0.35 26/0.23 34/0.30 55/0.20 50/0.23 44/0.19 50/0.30 57/0.49 54/0.42 29/0.27 19/0.18 15/0.14 51/0.20 47/0.21 41/0.17 47/0.29 53/0.43 49/0.41 25/0.25 17/0.16 25/0.22 47/0.17 49/0.23 38/0.16 48/0.30 48/0.33 51/0.40 11/0.09 7/0.05 30/0.27 45/0.15 40/0.17 3/0.01 49/0.29 56/0.44 51/0.41 37/0.34 22/0.21 8/0.07 43/0.15 31/0.12 21/0.06 45/0.27 61/0.53 52/0.40 38/0.34 22/0.21 34/0.30 50/0.18 47/0.22 33/0.14 50/0.30 60/0.53 51/0.41 40/0.35 26/0.23 33/0.29 52/0.18 47/0.22 41/0.17 48/0.29 59/0.51 51/0.40 20/0.20 13/0.12 21/0.18 46/0.17 46/0.21 16/0.05 46/0.27 55/0.43 41/0.29 3/0.02 4/0.01 9/0.07 46/0.14 50/0.22 17/0.05 44/0.24 ETPNav (R2R) ETPNav (RxR) WMNav L3MVN VLFM PRS-SR (↑) PRS-SPL (↑) Uncorrupted Gaussian noise Missing data Multipath Quantization 0.62 0.87 0.87 0.56 0.61 0.60 0.86 0.79 0.53 0.64 65/0.58 56/0.45 55/0.20 50/0.23 50/0.30 33/0.29 53/0.42 49/0.15 2/0.01 0/0.00 24/0.17 37/0.27 45/0.14 25/0.09 47/0.29 55/0.50 53/0.43 47/0.16 34/0.15 27/0.18 48/0.43 52/0.43 51/0.18 51/0.24 49/0.30 ETPNav (R2R) ETPNav (RxR) NaVid-7B (R2R) NaVid-7B (RxR) Uni-NaVid (RxR) PRS-SR (↑) PRS-SPL (↑) Uncorrupted Capitalization Mask 50% Mask 100% Friendly Novice Professional Formal Black-box White-box 0.72 0.48 0.86 0.64 0.58 0.70 0.46 0.88 0.64 0.58 65/0.58 57/0.46 40/0.35 46/0.41 57/0.50 63/0.57 56/0.45 42/0.38 48/0.43 58/0.51 49/0.43 29/0.22 39/0.34 34/0.29 36/0.31 37/0.33 19/0.15 30/0.25 20/0.19 21/0.18 48/0.38 24/0.18 38/0.34 28/0.24 30/0.26 54/0.44 31/0.21 39/0.33 33/0.26 33/0.28 42/0.36 17/0.14 32/0.30 20/0.20 21/0.20 42/0.37 20/0.15 33/0.30 24/0.22 26/0.23 40/0.35 25/0.18 25/0.25 27/0.25 46/0.38 — — 30/0.27 30/0.27 28/0.24 Fig. 3: Success Rate (%) ↑ and SPL ↑ across corruption types (left: RGB corruption, middle: depth corruption, right: instruction corruption; L-L: Low-lighting). The first and the second rows show the PRS ↑ based on SR and SPL. models (about 29% for NaV id (R2R) and 31% for PSL). VLFM does not catastrophically fail in these regimes; un- der low-lighting conditions, its SR changes by at most a couple of points, indicating strong tolerance to photometric shifts. Even when agents succeed under image corruptions, they typically take longer and less efficient paths (Fig. 4). A veraging across all corruptions, VLFM emerges as the most robust model, ranking first in PRS-SR and PRS-SPL (both 0.94), while Uni-Navid and NaV id attain more modest PRS scores (0.64/0.64 and 0.62/0.64 for RxR). This implies that its modular architecture, which decouples depth-in volv ed geometric mapping from a pre-trained vision-language back- bone, preserves semantic understanding ev en when visual inputs degrade. Moreover , VLFM is built upon BLIP-2 [38]. Its vision-language architecture, which prioritizes high-level semantic priors over fine details and is pre-trained on di verse real-world data, prov es to be inherently more robust to noise and corruptions. WMNav achie ves strong PRS-SR as well, likely due to its extensiv e photometric augmentation and confidence-gated late-fusion stack, underscoring that explicit robustness training and uncertainty management can be more effecti ve than scaling model size alone (NaV id and PSL). W e also note that panoramic sweeps strengthen viewpoint robustness: models using panoramic inputs (WMNav and ETPNav) rank highly in both PRS-SR and PRS-SPL. The R2R dataset follows the same trend of corruption-induced performance drop, as reflected by its similar PRS-SR and PRS-SPL scores. Howe ver , the overall SR/SPL is higher on R2R than on RxR, likely due to R2R’ s simpler in- structions compared to the more complex language in RxR. In summary , our RGB corruptions rev eal the sensitivity to sensor noise among vision-based models, with vision- language encoders (e.g., BLIP-2) behaving more robustly than detector-based pipelines and RGB-only agents such as Uni-NaV id and NaV id. Depth Corruptions. Agents often fail catastrophically under range degradation as shown in Fig. 3. Among the tested corruptions, Gaussian noise is the most destructiv e: L3MVN’ s success rate collapses from 50% to 2%, and VLFM similarly drops from 50% to 0%. In contrast, ETPNav (RxR) and WMNav show partial resilience, decreasing only from 56% to 53% and from 55% to 49%, respectiv ely . Missing-data corruption is like wise sev ere, with ETPNav (RxR), L3MVN falling to 37%, 25%. Multipath interference produces a similar but less extreme pattern, with ETPNav (RxR), WMNav , L3MVN, and VLFM ending at 53%, 47%, 34%, and 27%, respectiv ely . These results highlight that depth-in volv ed agents remain highly dependent on accurate range data, as corrupted depth maps warp occupancy grids and undermine commonsense priors. Quantization yields more mixed ef fects. For ETPNav and WMNa v , it is relativ ely mild, reducing success from 65% to 48% (R2R) and from 55% to 51%, while L3MVN is essentially unchanged (50% to 51%) and VLFM drops slightly from 50% to 49%. This disparity underscores how direct ingestion of raw depth (as in ETPNav) still leav es systems vulnerable, since any sensor error can propagate directly into planning, whereas more robust pipelines can partially absorb quantization noise. An outlier case remains VLFM under missing-data corruption, where performance degrades less than for L3MVN, po- tentially because its frontier-based exploration occasionally benefits from ignoring misleading range inputs. Simply adding a depth sensor does not ensure robustness; the fusion strategy is critical. Despite using the same depth hardware, ETPNa v (RxR) matches WMNav in PRS-SR (0.87 vs. 0.87) but trails by 0.07 in PRS-SPL (0.79 vs. 0.86). This gap potentially stems from ETPNa v’ s early-fusion design, which feeds raw depth directly into its transformer stack, so Gaussian noise, quantization, or multipath corruptions contaminate ev ery token the planner processes. WMNav , by contrast, extracts monocular features first and introduces depth as an auxiliary channel with learned confidence gating, enabling it to down-weight unreliable range inputs in real time. This late-fusion with noise filtering outperforms raw early fusion. On the R2R dataset, ETPNav exhibits a larger performance drop, which may be because depth failures are no longer compensated by the fine-grained RxR instructions, as the simpler R2R directions provide weaker guidance and thus amplify the impact of corrupted depth. Instruction Corruptions. The language models in ETP- Nav , NaV id, and Uni-NaV id are pre-trained on massiv e datasets, making them more robust to superficial edits like capitalization changes. Success rate changes are minor (ETP- Nav -1%, NaV id +2%, Uni-NaV id +1% for RxR), con- firming that all three models interpret instructions correctly regardless of case. When lexical anchors are remov ed via U nc or r upt e d B l ack - box ( I ns t r uc t i on) Low - Li ght i n g ( RG B) M ul t i pa t h (D e p th ) Fig. 4: The top-down visualization of different trajectories in green generated by ETPNav under different corruption types. Red and orange dots denote the goal positions and navigation waypoints. Motion Blur Low Light w/o Noise Low Light w/ Noise Spatter Flare Defocus Blur Foreign Object Black-out Motion Blur Low Light w/o Noise Low Light w/ Noise Spatter Flare Defocus Blur Foreign Object Black-out Gaussian Noise Missing Data Multipath Depth Quantiz. English Indian English US Hindi T elugu 16/0.14 34/0.31 42/0.38 10/0.09 57/0.50 52/0.45 30/0.25 13/0.11 49/0.37 38/0.28 46/0.36 48/0.39 46/0.34 47/0.39 51/0.39 41/0.28 57/0.46 38/0.28 55/0.45 56/0.46 26/0.23 46/0.41 59/0.52 5/0.05 59/0.51 60/0.53 36/0.29 14/0.11 55/0.44 54/0.45 54/0.42 53/0.41 56/0.44 55/0.45 51/0.39 43/0.29 49/0.37 33/0.24 53/0.44 47/0.39 10/0.09 9/0.08 12/0.11 9/0.09 12/0.11 13/0.12 12/0.11 7/0.06 54/0.44 47/0.46 53/0.42 53/0.43 54/0.42 51/0.41 53/0.41 41/0.30 56/0.45 42/0.31 53/0.44 53/0.44 10/0.09 9/0.08 7/0.06 8/0.08 8/0.08 5/0.05 7/0.06 2/0.02 56/0.43 56/0.44 51/0.39 51/0.39 52/0.40 52/0.40 50/0.38 40/0.28 51/0.41 36/0.27 49/0.40 51/0.41 Uni-NaVid (RGB) ETPNav (RGB) ETPNav (Depth) Fig. 5: The multilingual result of Uni-NaV id and ETPNav , results tested in RxR dataset. random masking, waypoint grounding degrades, and SR declines nonlinearly: at 50% masking, NaV id loses 12% SR while ETPNav drops 28% and Uni-NaV id 21% for RxR; full 100% masking driv es all three methods tow ard near- random na vigation. Stylistic re write rev eals a vocabulary gap. “Friendly/Novice” instructions with simple clauses reduce SR by 13-18% on NaV id, 26-33% on ETPNav , and 24-27% on Uni-NaV id, meanwhile “Professional/Formal” prompts packed with rare synonyms cut SR by about 22-26% on NaV id, 37-40% on ETPNav , and 31-36% on Uni-NaV id for RxR. Adv ersarial prompt injection disrupts encoding: generic black-box prefixes trim SR by roughly 10-30% across the three agents, showing the malicious injections (e.g., high masking ratios combined with distractor clauses) almost completely derail navigation. White-box attacks, where the adversary exploits the internal tokenization logic, are only applicable to NaV id and Uni-NaV id; ETPNav’ s tokenizer is embedded tightly within its pipeline, which blocks such alterations but also reduces its tolerance for style v ariations. In Fig. 4, ETPNav may start well to ward the goal but v eer off once instructions contain out-of-vocab ulary semantic cues. Overall, the SR across corruptions is consistent with the view that tokenization artifacts (e.g., masking, capitalization) and vocabulary cov erage play a major role in rob ustness to instruction corruptions. Strengthening robustness will require large training datasets that span diverse styles, dialects, and adversarial phrasings, paired with objectiv es that re ward se- mantic grounding over surface-form similarity . Curricula that gradually increase linguistic dif ficulty (e.g., raising masking ratios, distractor density , and register shifts) could harden models while preserving zero-shot transfer . As Fig. 3 shows, NaV id, Uni-NaV id, and ETPNav obtain PRS-SR/SPL of approximately 0.64/0.64, 0.58/0.58, and 0.48/0.46, respec- tiv ely , in RxR. ETPNa v lags NaV id by about 0.15 PRS-SR and 0.18 PRS-SPL despite having a depth sensor . The gap could potentially be traced to its rigid, fixed-size tokenizer: real-world utterances outside its vocab ulary are mapped to , erasing the information that the planner could otherwise lev erage. Architecture also plays a role: tightly coupling token embeddings to the control stack propagates the brittleness, whereas modular designs limit the language module to high-lev el waypoint generation and leave low-le vel control to a separate policy , exhibiting stronger robustness to language corruption. Shorter , simpler phrasing makes R2R naturally more robust to instruction corruptions, since there are fewer tokens, fewer opportunities for semantic drift, and weaker long-range dependencies between words. The Multilingual robustness, shown in Fig. 5, suggests that Uni-NaV id, which is e xposed mostly to English RxR splits in comparison to Hindi or T elugu instructions, strug- gles to generalize beyond its training language. On clean RGB episodes, it achiev es 59/0.52 SR/SPL on EN-US and 55/0.48 on EN-IN, but performance collapses to 12/0.11 and 11/0.10 on HI-IN and TE-IN, yielding a much lower cross-lingual average of 34/0.30. The same pattern holds under corruptions: across motion blur , low lighting, and other image shifts, the English columns remain usable while non- English SR hov ers in the single digits. In contrast, ETPNav is explicitly trained on multilingual supervision and maintains high SR/SPL across all four languages: its clean performance is 54-60% SR and 0.42-0.49 SPL, with an ov erall av erage of 56/0.45. The much smaller gap between EN-US, EN-IN, HI- IN, and TE-IN indicates that, when the training distribution includes non-English instructions, the same architecture can achiev e strong multilingual navigation, whereas Uni-NaV id’ s is brittle tow ards simple language switches. C. Mitigation Results Data A ugmentation. Data augmentation (D A) training at intensity 0.6, ETPNav shows different robustness depending on the augmentation regime. In T able II, per-frame DA achiev es PRS-SR of 0.89 on RGB corruptions and 0.67 on depth, whereas per -episode D A improves these to 0.92 and 0.72, respectively . The superior retention of per-episode D A reflects its preservation of temporal coherence: ETPNav’ s online topological mapping can update its graph consistently across an episode, while per -frame D A may inject unstable noise that disrupts waypoint predictions. A distributed per- episode D A variant, which oversamples underperforming corruptions, yields further gains (0.93 RGB, 0.73 depth PRS- SR). Pushing the augmentation to higher intensities at 0.9 Frien. Novice Formal Profes. Black- box White- box PRS- SR PRS- SPL Frien. Novice Formal Profes. Black- box White- box PRS- SR PRS- SPL Frien. Novice Formal Profes. Black- box PRS- SR PRS- SPL LLaMA 3 Fine- T uning o3 Prompt Engineering 31/0.24 35/0.25 30/0.24 31/0.24 44/0.42 45/0.41 0.78 0.73 38/0.32 42/0.34 39/0.33 40/0.32 53/0.49 55/0.48 0.78 0.76 40/0.20 52/0.42 39/0.37 42/0.34 55/0.41 0.80 0.76 27/0.21 26/0.20 23/0.18 21/0.17 43/0.41 44/0.40 0.67 0.64 33/0.29 32/0.28 28/0.24 24/0.21 52/0.48 54/0.47 0.65 0.66 40/0.30 38/0.30 32/0.26 30/0.24 54/0.40 0.68 0.65 NaVid-7B Uni-NaVid ETPNav Fig. 6: Instruction mitigation strategies on RxR dataset. (Frien.: Friendly , Profes.: Professional) T ABLE II: Mitigation strategies: SR per corruption for ETPNav where ( σ ) indicates the intensity (Adap.: Adapter , D A: Data Augmentation, PF: Per-frame, PE: Per-episode, SD: Success Rate Distributed, T -S distil.: T eacher-Student distillation, L-L: Low-lighting, results tested in R2R dataset). Corruption Adap. D A PF (0.6) D A PE (0.6) D A SD (0.6) D A PE (0.9/0.8) T -S distil. PRS-SR (RGB) 0.33 0.89 0.92 0.93 0.94 0.93 Motion blur 16 52 66 60 66 62 L-L w/o noise 22 62 62 59 62 61 L-L w/ noise 30 58 55 64 60 55 Spatter 16 59 62 58 55 66 Flare 24 62 60 64 63 56 Defocus 14 51 60 61 62 59 Foreign object 21 59 60 59 62 61 Black-out 26 58 52 59 57 61 PRS-SR (Depth) 0.89 0.67 0.72 0.73 0.75 0.85 Gaussian noise 55 33 59 38 42 42 Missing data 54 51 25 32 29 66 Multipath 62 31 43 56 62 61 Quantization 60 59 61 63 63 52 for RGB and 0.8 for depth shows 0.94 and 0.75 PRS- SR, respecti vely . These results suggest that stronger corrup- tion exposure sharpens the vision-language encoder’ s RGB features and reduces depth over -reliance in the topological mapper . Howe ver , depth remains a limiting factor . T eacher -Student Distillation. In the teacher-student (TS) distillation, a teacher model trained with 0.6-intensity aug- mentation guides a student in corrupted en vironments, yield- ing PRS-SR 0.93 on image corruptions and 0.85 on depth (T able II), respecti vely . The gains are mostly significant for depth, suggesting that transferring structured policies and intermediate features from an already robust teacher is more effecti ve than raw exposure when sensor noise disrupts the geometry . Distillation aligns the student’ s noisy perceptual embeddings with the teacher’ s clean topological represen- tations through a composite loss. This stabilizes waypoint selections and graph updates. Overall, the modular planner in ETPNa v le verages teacher signals to preserv e long-horizon intent under noise without architectural changes. Adapters. According to T able II, adding lightweight residual Con vAdapters into the depth and RGB encoder raises the PRS-SR from 0.62 to 0.89, while training only 4% of the model parameters. This gain reflects the added geometric inv ariance to appearance shifts, higher tolerance of depth error (small depth errors otherwise compound into navigation failures), and more stable RGB-Depth fu- sion under corruption. Zero-initialized adapters are trained against depth-specific corruptions, learning correctiv e map- pings without disturbing pretrained priors. This enhances free-space estimation in cluttered en vironments, mitigates sim-to-real cov ariate shift, and preserves clean performance. The parameter efficienc y further resists ov erfitting, making the robustness gains consistent across intensities and scenes. RGB adapters struggled due to incompatibility with the T orchV ision ResNet-50 encoder [39], which differs from Real - World Deploy ment VLN Instruction: Move to the black school bag on a table, and move forward to the blue jacket on a chai r. Uni - NaVid & ETPNav Corrupted & Mitigate d Models Settings Fig. 7: An overall illustration of the setup of our real-world deployment, blue line shows a successful route, and the red line shows a failure mode. Clean Low-Lighting w/ Noise Low-Lighting w/ Noise Mitigated Black-out Black-out Mitigated Instruction Mask Professional Professional Mitigated Uni-NaVid ETPNav 25 fail — fail — 41 55 33 25 50 42 52 46 fail fail 49 Fig. 8: The number of steps of the navigation in the real- world deployment. the depth encoder VlnResnetDepthEncoder in its geometry- preserving outputs. Safeguard LLM. In Fig 6, applying a safeguard LLM improv es instruction robustness for all 3 models, achieving PRS-SR improvement of 0.14, 0.20, 0.32 with fine-tuned LLaMA 3.2, and 0.03, 0.08, 0.20 with prompt-engineered OpenAI o3 for NaV id-7B, Uni-NaV id, and ETPNav . The methods are complementary: OpenAI o3 excels at paraphras- ing stylistic and tonal v ariations due to its broader v ocabulary and work kno wledge, while the fine-tuned LLaMA is more effecti ve at stripping adversarial content and canonicalizing inputs into R2R form. The safeguard offers lightweight yet effecti ve protection against linguistic corruptions. D. Real-W orld Deployment T o validate whether the robustness trends observed in simulation align with the physical settings, we deploy Uni- NaV id and ETPNav on a RealMan robot, na vigating in a robotic lab, as illustrated in Fig. 7. W e measure performance by the number of navigation steps (i.e., move forward, turn left, turn right) required to reach the goal, with fewer steps indicating more efficient navigation, and “fail” denotes that the agent did not reach the goal. Results are summarized in Fig. 8. More details are in the supplementary video. In clean conditions, Uni-NaV id and ETPNav complete the task in 25 steps. When RGB corruptions are introduced, Uni- NaV id, an RGB-only agent, fails under both Low-Lighting w/ Noise and Black-out corruptions, whereas ETPNav , which lev erages depth for topological mapping, remains successful in navigation with degraded efficienc y (50 and 52 steps, respectiv ely). This aligns with the simulation observation that depth-inv olved agents show greater resilience to RGB degradation. After applying our data augmentation mitigation strategy , ETPNav’ s step count decreases from 50 to 42 under Low-Lighting w/ Noise and from 52 to 46 under Black- out, demonstrating that the robustness gains from corruption- aware training transfer effecti vely to real-world conditions. Similarly , our benchmarks rev eal the vulnerabilities under instruction corruption. Under Instruction Masking, ETPNav fails to reach the goal while Uni-NaV id succeeds in 41 steps, consistent with our finding that ETPNav’ s rigid tokenizer is more brittle to linguistic perturbations. Under the Pro- fessional stylistic rewrite, Uni-NaV id completes the task in 55 steps, b ut ETPNav fails, reflecting the v ocabulary gap where instructions with rare synonyms degrade ETPNa v’ s performance. After applying the Safeguard LLM, Uni-NaV id improv es from 55 to 33 steps, and ETPNav recovers from failure, completing the task in 49 steps. These results show that the standardized instruction by the LLM generalizes be- yond simulation. Overall, the real-world deplo yment supports key conclusions from our simulated ev aluation. V . C O N C L U S I O N W e introduced NavT rust, the first unified benchmark for ev aluating the trustworthiness of embodied navigation systems across both perception and language modalities, which covers VLN and OGN agents. Through controlled RGB-Depth and instruction corruptions, NavT rust rev eals performance vulnerabilities across state-of-the-art agents. By providing an extensi ve comparative study , we enable the community to focus on not just peak performance under nominal conditions but also robust, reliable, and trustworthy behavior under corruptions. 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