arXiv AI
Jul 24
VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method
arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.
PSG-Nav: Probabilistic Scene Graph Navigation via Multiverse Decision Making
arXiv:2606. 01313v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-vocabulary navigation requires embodied agents to manage significant perception uncertainty stemming from semantic ambiguity and model errors.
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Prior-SG: Task and Prior Driven Region Segmentation for Scene Graphs in Arbitrarily-Structured Environments
Hierarchical 3D scene graphs are a promising representation for high-level spatial reasoning in autonomous mobile platforms. However, existing extraction frameworks typically rely on purely local visual clustering or strict geometric heuristics, such as wall-separated rooms, which fail in open-plan or arbitrarily-structured environments.
arXiv AI
Jun 8
SCOUT: Semantic scene COverage via Uncertainty-guided Traversal
arXiv:2606. 06721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots that operate over extended periods should not merely visit space; they should progressively understand it.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10
SASGeo: Stability-Aware Semantic Map Localization for GNSS-Denied UAVs -- A Framework and Synthetic Proof of Concept
arXiv:2607. 07737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicles require occasional absolute position fixes to bound the drift of visual-inertial odometry.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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NavVerse: Benchmarking Indoor-to-Outdoor Embodied Navigation in Continuous Robot Simulation
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 1
MVP-Nav: Multi-layer Value Map Planner Navigator
arXiv:2606. 31919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Zero-shot Object Goal Navigation (ZSON) with RGB-only perception poses a fundamental challenge for embodied agents, as the absence of explicit depth information introduces severe physical uncertainty and semantic-physical misalignment.
arXiv AI
Aug 11
From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2608. 09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations.
arXiv AI
Jul 17
VTM-Nav: Hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory for Cross-Episode Object-Goal Navigation
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.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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SASGeo: Stability-Aware Semantic Map Localization for GNSS-Denied UAVs -- A Framework and Synthetic Proof of Concept
GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicles require occasional absolute position fixes to bound the drift of visual-inertial odometry. Cross-view image retrieval can provide such fixes, but raw appearance is sensitive to season, illumination, viewpoint, map age, and sensor modality.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23
NavWM: A Unified Navigation World Model for Foresight-Driven Planning
Conventional visual navigation policies often struggle with myopic decision-making and mode collapse in complex environments. While world models offer a promising alternative, existing paradigms typically isolate perception, generation, and control, failing to capture their shared spatio-temporal dynamics.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
WorldFly: A World-Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation
arXiv:2606. 06147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation.
arXiv AI
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Bridging the 2D-3D Gap: A Hierarchical Semantic-Geometric Map for Vision Language Navigation
arXiv:2606. 00095v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to reach target locations in unseen environments by following language instructions.