arXiv:2606. 31073v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) provide a promising interface for high-level robotic task planning, but their use in multi-UAV collaboration remains difficult to evaluate systematically.
By Sheng Zhang, Qinglin Li, Yuechao Zang, Xueqin Huang, Yijia Fu, Cheng Zhu
arXiv:2607. 04927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using video-based world modeling as dense supervision for robot action learning.
By Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su, Tianbin Liu, Zhangyuan Wang, Kai Xie, Zitai Huang, Chong Ma, Youzhang He, Tianjian Wang, Hanyang Wang, Weihao Ding, Yi Xu
The paper introduces VLN on the Fly, an onboard vision‑language navigation stack for aerial robots that separates grounding, planning, and control into inspectable stages. A quantized vision‑language model grounds instructions to a coarse image cell, depth estimation lifts this to a 3D goal, a fast B‑spline planner generates a feasible trajectory, and a pretrained reinforcement learning policy translates the trajectory into motor commands. In controlled indoor flights, the stack achieved the target in 13 of 15 trials with a mean goal error of 5.72 cm and 39.3% GPU utilization, and successfully tracked collision‑free trajectories in cluttered environments.
By Marco S. Tayar, Felipe Tommaselli, Gianluca Capezutto, Pedro Antonio Rabelo Saraiva, Pedro H. V. de Freitas, Lucas Kido, Guilherme Sonego, Ricardo V. Godoy, Marcelo Becker
arXiv:2608. 07557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex 3D environments.
By Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua Wan
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.
By Long Giang Vu, Chengkai Yao, Yuxin Liu, FNU Aryan, Rajath Chandrashekar Aralikatti
arXiv:2609.35965v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has largely focused on a single agent following a single instruction, yet many real-world applications require t...
By Yunzhe Xu, Zhe Liu
arXiv:2602. 15875v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current Visual-Language Navigation (VLN) methodologies face a trade-off between semantic understanding and control precision.
By Zhenxing Xu, Yihong Lu, Weidong Bao, Zhengqiu Zhu, Jingxuan Zhou, Zhichuang Wang, Ji Wang, Lihua Liu, Wei He
arXiv:2606. 02951v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying language-driven agents in robotics requires evaluations that reflect real-world task demands: natural-language instructions with reproducible outcomes.
By Nikolaj Hindsbo, Sina Ehsani, Pragyana Mishra
arXiv:2606. 30696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling robots to follow natural language commands to complete zero-shot long-horizon tasks remains challenging.
By Kaier Liang, Hengde Dai, Cristian-Ioan Vasile
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have attracted growing interest as a scalable approach to robotic manipulation. While these models are effective action predictors, deploying them as robotic agents exposes critical gaps: no mechanism for failure recovery, inconsistent execution over long horizons, and limited robustness to shifts in observations, tasks, or embodiments.
arXiv:2506.11261v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models have shown promising progress in robotic manipulation. However, directly mapping visual observations and...
By Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Paul Pacaud, Cordelia Schmid
arXiv:2606. 31329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models decouple high-level planning from low-level control to improve generalization in robot manipulation.
By Dongyoon Hwang, Byungkun Lee, Dongjin Kim, Hyojin Jang, Hoiyeong Jin, Jueun Mun, Minho Park, Hojoon Lee, Hyunseung Kim, Jaegul Choo