arXiv AI
Jul 14
RVN-Bench: A Benchmark for Reactive Visual Navigation
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
IR-SIM: A Lightweight Skill-Native Simulator for Navigation, Learning, and Benchmarking
arXiv:2606. 08729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation plays a key role in automated robotics research supported by large language models (LLMs).
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Jun 2
Crazyflow: An Accurate, GPU-Accelerated, Differentiable Drone Simulator in JAX
arXiv:2606. 01478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-quality, large-scale synthetic data from simulations is becoming a cornerstone for pushing the capabilities of robot algorithms.
arXiv AI
Jul 14
Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies
arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.
arXiv AI
Jun 10
A Survey of Robotic Navigation and Manipulation with Physics Simulators in the Era of Embodied AI
arXiv:2505. 01458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Navigation and manipulation are core capabilities in Embodied AI, but training agents to perform them directly in the real world is costly, time-consuming, and unsafe.
arXiv AI
Jun 18
EffiNav: Fusing Depth and Vision-Language for Efficient Object Goal Navigation
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 AI
Jun 6
AgenticRL: Self-Refining Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Conditioned UAV Navigation
arXiv:2606. 03963v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for enabling autonomous robots to learn complex navigational tasks.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3
ASVSim (AirSim for Surface Vehicles): A High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Research
arXiv:2506. 22174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specifically for port and inland waterway transport.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
RoboDojo: A Unified Sim-and-Real Benchmark for Comprehensive Evaluation of Generalist Robot Manipulation Policies
arXiv:2607. 04434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalist robot manipulation policies have advanced rapidly, yet existing benchmarks remain limited in systematically evaluating their capabilities.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
MultiUAV-Plat: An LLM-Oriented Platform, Benchmark and Framework for Multi-UAV Collaborative Task Planning
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 15
APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model
arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.
arXiv AI
Jun 3
Self-Refining Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Conditioned UAV Navigation
arXiv:2606. 03963v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning has shown strong potential for enabling autonomous robots to learn complex navigational tasks.
arXiv AI
Jul 16
From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception
arXiv:2607. 13624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural language interaction provides an intuitive way for non-expert users to communicate with robotic platforms.