AVALON is a topological navigation framework that enables zero‑shot indoor navigation for service robots in familiar but unmapped buildings. It relies on human‑seeded layered spatial memory, node‑verified execution, and task‑triggered human‑robot memory co‑updating, requiring only a floor plan, place clues, and an initial topology‑odometry alignment. Experiments on a Unitree Go2 robot show AVALON completing a 12.81 m mission in 46.4 s—40.9% faster than DimOS‑Go2—without any on‑site mapping.
Robots deployed in delivery, campus, and emergency-response settings often need to navigate from buildings to streets within a single continuous episode. Existing benchmarks usually evaluate indoor and outdoor navigation separately, and many abstract away robot execution, leaving exit finding, boundary traversal, adaptation, and kinodynamic failures underexplored.
Navi-Agent is a zero‑shot Vision‑Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN‑CE) agent that builds a coordinate‑free spatial state from visual observations and motion history. It represents this state as a navigation topology with nodes as visual places and edges as motion transitions, enabling observation‑based self‑localization, task progress verification, and recovery. Experiments on a zero‑shot VLN‑CE benchmark and real‑world robot platforms demonstrate that Navi‑Agent achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance among geometry‑constrained methods while remaining competitive with geometry‑based approaches.
arXiv:2606. 08992v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in continuous environments requires agents to understand the spatial structure of previously unseen environments in order to follow language instructions.
arXiv:2607. 20785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across robot embodiments, and trains efficiently.
arXiv:2605.02525v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Semantic indoor navigation requires robots to connect human instructions with spatial destinations, execute missions and retain useful operat...
arXiv:2607. 14514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object-goal navigation requires an embodied agent to locate and reach an instance of a specified object category in an indoor environment.
arXiv:2606. 18634v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To locate a target object while exploring the unknown environment is a fundamental capability for autonomous agents, with applications ranging from search-and-rescue to field robots.
arXiv:2608. 07079v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Object-goal navigation has made substantial progress in semantic perception and exploration, yet persistent memory for multi-object navigation and cross-floor navigation are still commonly addressed separately.
The paper investigates how inaccuracies in pretrained occupancy networks affect active mapping robots that select camera viewpoints to reconstruct unknown 3D scenes. By fixing the planner and varying the occupancy representation—ranging from no completion to ground‑truth occupancy—the authors find that correcting false positives or false negatives alone does not reliably improve coverage, highlighting a disconnect between occupancy accuracy and planning performance. They propose a dynamic filtering strategy that retains predictions in unexplored space while suppressing unsupported occupancy based on online observations, which preliminarily shows it can steer viewpoint selection toward reachable surfaces that would otherwise remain unseen.
WildOS is a unified system that enables long‑range, open‑vocabulary object search in unstructured outdoor environments by combining safe geometric exploration with semantic visual reasoning. It constructs a sparse navigation graph for spatial memory and uses the ExploRFM vision module to score frontier nodes, predicting traversability, visual frontiers, and object similarity in real time. A particle‑filter localization method estimates distant goal positions, allowing the robot to plan toward far‑away targets, and field experiments show WildOS outperforms purely geometric or vision‑based baselines in efficiency and autonomy.
arXiv:2608.21395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: NoMaD [31] is a learned vision-navigation policy that unifies goal-conditioned navigation and exploration in a single goal-masked diffusion policy. I...
AnchorVLN is an open‑vocabulary vision‑language navigation system that separates semantic proposals from geometric metrics. It uses a VLM to generate semantics while a geometry module supplies reliable metric quantities such as range and bearing, all within a Model Context Protocol server. The system achieves 64.4% on instruction following and improves object‑reference accuracy, reducing median center error from 3.37 m to 2.48 m.