Autonomous navigation is the core index to evaluate the intelligent degree of wheeled mobile robot, but the metrological evaluation of autonomous navigation performance is still in its infancy, and the metrological evaluation index system and evaluation method are seriously missing. Therefore, this paper investigates the existing wheeled mobile robot autonomous navigation architecture and path planning algorithm, analyzes the performance index of wheeled mobile robot autonomous navigation, and summarizes the research status of autonomous navigation metrological evaluation. On this basis, the key technical difficulties of metrological evaluation technology for wheeled mobile robot are summarized, further promote the development of metrological evaluation technology for wheeled mobile robots.