Uncertainty-Guided Belief World Models for Long-Horizon UAV Navigation under Partial Observability and Visual Degradation
This paper proposes the Uncertainty-Guided Belief World Model (UG-BWM), a framework that leverages posterior covariance and ensemble-based predictive uncertainty to guide belief updates and trigger selective replanning, thereby significantly improving long-horizon UAV navigation success and reducing collision rates under partial observability and visual degradation compared to state-of-the-art baselines.