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MemoGuard: An Adaptive Runtime for Guarding Against Memory Traps in Communication-Limited Robot Navigation

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TL;DR - MemoGuard is a lightweight runtime that checks retrieved robot memories for topology, resource, and outcome validity before executing them. It improves navigation safety while avoiding unnecessary local LLM reasoning costs.

  • Defines “memory traps”: contextually similar but unsafe or invalid past actions.
  • Invokes fallback reasoning only when a retrieved memory violates execution contracts.
  • Reduced battery safety violations by 76.6% versus similarity-only top-1 reuse.
  • Reduced fallback calls by 21.4% versus always reasoning, saving 3.67 seconds and 36.97 joules per trial on Jetson hardware.

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MemoGuard: An Adaptive Runtime for Guarding Against Memory Traps in Communication-Limited Robot Navigation

arXiv cs.RO Rajat Bhattacharjya, Hyeonjong Ju, Sing-Yao Wu, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Nikil Dutt 2026-07-17 arXiv:2607.15589
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TL;DR - MemoGuard is a lightweight runtime that checks retrieved robot memories for topology, resource, and outcome validity before executing them. It improves navigation safety while avoiding unnecessary local LLM reasoning costs.

  • Defines “memory traps”: contextually similar but unsafe or invalid past actions.
  • Invokes fallback reasoning only when a retrieved memory violates execution contracts.
  • Reduced battery safety violations by 76.6% versus similarity-only top-1 reuse.
  • Reduced fallback calls by 21.4% versus always reasoning, saving 3.67 seconds and 36.97 joules per trial on Jetson hardware.
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