KinoUAV introduces a kinodynamic benchmark for UAV vision-language navigation, featuring a dataset and an agent that generate trajectories under velocity, acceleration, and jerk constraints. The benchmark incorporates directional free-space distance labels to guide safe motion decisions and a Cruise-Seek task that eases target search. Experiments show the KinoUAV-Agent achieves higher success rates with lower yaw and collision rates than existing methods.
By Chenyao Yang, Peijin Wang, Yingchao Feng, Wenhui Diao
UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly. This formulation makes it difficult to assess a critical capability of aerial embodied agents, namely whether a UAV can accurately ground a visible target and translate vision-language evidence into precise 3D motion once the target enters its field of view.
arXiv:2606. 20045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly.
By Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen, Zhikun Hu, Hongjun Wang, Yang Yang, Xindi Wang, Jiande Sun
arXiv:2610.17419v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous quadrotor flight in cluttered environment is an key capability for tasks like inspection and search. Navigation policies trained in simula...
By Aditya Azad, Arthur Huang, Guanrui Li
arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.
By Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang, Xinyu Liu, Xuxin Lv, Yuxin Guo, Lei Huang, Rongye Shi, Wenjun Wu
RiverVLN introduces the first benchmark for long‑horizon vision‑language navigation (VLN) of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in continuous riverine motion. The PGT‑NAV framework converts navigation instructions into an ordered sequence of visually verifiable semantic phases, maintaining an active phase online through grounded visual and motion evidence. This phase‑grounded approach reduces recursive position and heading drift, achieving a 0.79 success rate in Unity‑ROS closed‑loop tests and demonstrating transfer to real‑world USV deployment.
By Jieling Wu, Yuehao Huang, Jiajun Lv, Tao Huang, Yong Liu, Weiwei Liu
arXiv:2609.36915v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Aerial manipulators extend robotic manipulation into 3D workspaces that are difficult for ground-based robots to access, creating new opportunities f...
By Rui Huang, Yanlin Mu, Lidong Li, Yucong Wang, Zichen Yan, Lin Zhao
arXiv:2606. 00747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) autonomy, 3D spatial understanding is not merely a perception objective, but the safety interface between human instructions and physical flight.
By Jie Gao, Jie Ma, Kaihui Lin, Kai Ye, Miaohui Zhang, Pingyang Dai, Liujuan Cao
arXiv:2609.13231v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong generalization in robotic manipulation and navigation, but existing fine-tuning methods provid...
By Manan Tayal, Akshay Nambi
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.
By Zecheng Yin, Benedict Jun Ma
arXiv:2606. 04111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor UAV navigation requires efficient exploration, scene understanding, and reliable trajectory execution under limited field-of-view observations.
By Faryal Batool, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Fawad Mehboob, Valerii Serpiva, Dzmitry Tsetserukou
arXiv:2606. 03963v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for enabling autonomous robots to learn complex navigational tasks.
By Roohan Ahmed Khan, Yasheerah Yaqoot, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Dzmitry Tsetserukou