# Idealworks and NVIDIA evaluate sim-to-real transfer of COMPASS navigation

- Source: arXiv cs.RO
- Published: 2026-10-21T04:00:00.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/cc7ijttsee4jg6a5n9mn32ea7
- Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28432

## Summary

Idealworks and NVIDIA systematically evaluated the sim-to-real transfer of the X-Mobility and COMPASS learned navigation pipeline on industrial mobile robots. After training in a digital twin with Cosmos-generated sim-to-real data, real-robot success rates across four scenarios rose from 65.3% to 91.7%, weighted travel time nearly halved, the gap to the production-line navigation stack was 8.3 percentage points, and everything ran on the onboard Jetson AGX Xavier.