arXiv Computer Vision

AgriVLN: Vision-and-Language Navigation for Agricultural Robots

AgriVLN introduces a vision‑and‑language navigation benchmark (A2A) tailored for agricultural robots, comprising 1,560 episodes across six scene classes with step‑by‑step instructions and continuous actions. Existing VLN methods perform well on short instructions but poorly on long ones; to address this, the authors propose a Subtask‑Level‑Task (STL) module that decomposes complex instructions into simple subtasks. Integrating STL into the NavGPT backbone yields the AgriVLN method, improving success rate from 0.33 to 0.47 while slightly increasing navigation error from 2.76 m to 2.91 m, and the paper includes ablation and case studies on subtask quantity and scene classes.

arXiv AI
Aug 13

G0.5: One Autoregressive Stream for Robot Reasoning and Action

arXiv:2608. 11739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prevailing recipe for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models couples a pretrained VLM with a separately trained flow-matching action expert.

By Yicheng Liu, Zibin Dong, Baijun Ye, Tianyuan Yuan, Tao Jiang, Anqi Yang, Shicheng Cao, Haonan Liu, Yue Sun, Zihan Guo, Xiao Liu, Dong Ke, Changxun Pan, Chenru Wu, Tailai Cheng, Xiaoshu Ren, Xinlei Zhang, Jianning Cui, Zijie Zhao, Haoyu Zhang, Kaiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Bowen Zhang, Jiahui Niu, Shaoting Zhu, Shiduo Zhang, Hang Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

XS-VLA: Coupling Coarse-grained Spatial Distillation with Latent Flow Matching for Lightweight Robotic Control

arXiv:2607. 04171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong multimodal understanding and spatial grounding, but their computational cost limits real-time robotic control.

By Lei Iok Tong, Qingchen Xie, Wei Huang, Ying Jie Yap, Yujie Zhang, Qianzhi Li, Xiaolong Liu, Zhidong Deng
arXiv AI
Jun 30

CLOSER-VLN: Closed-Loop Self-Verified Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2606. 28397v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language navigation (VLN) has recently advanced with large language and multimodal models, enabling agents to follow natural-language instructions in unseen environments without training a task-specific navigation policy.

By Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma, Junfeng Chen, Haoran Zhao, Yaoming Zhou
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Let the Mind Conceive, Let the Hand Achieve: Following Multimodal Instructions for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

The paper introduces Orchestra, a robotic agent that separates task planning from action generation to follow multimodal, long‑horizon instructions. Orchestra decomposes instructions into ordered subtasks, tracks progress, updates object locations, and uses a progress evaluator to decide when to advance. On the new RMBench‑Compose benchmark, Orchestra outperforms prior methods, achieving higher success rates and longer average subtask sequences, and shows improved performance on real‑world multi‑step tasks.

By Youpeng Wen, Gang Wang, Tianyu Huang, Weiwei Zhang, Zhijian Huang, Wei Chen, Xieyuanli Chen, Yunhui Liu
arXiv AI
Oct 2

FineART: Fine-Grained Annotated Robotic Trajectory Dataset and Vision-Language-Action Model for Bimanual Manipulation

arXiv:2609.36416v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robots operating in real-world environments must often execute complex, multi-step bimanual tasks over long horizons rather than single, isol...

By Jade Choghari, Pepijn Kooijmans, Mansi Agarwal, Yusuf Umut Ciftci, Aseem Doriwala, Catherine Weaver, Mouli Sivapurapu, Kai Yang, Thomas Wolf, Jackson Lee, Pragna Mannam
arXiv AI
Jul 7

DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

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
arXiv AI
Jul 3

CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

arXiv:2607. 02222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation has increasingly emphasized high-level instruction reasoning, memory, global map construction, and instruction decomposition, while the low-level action representation remains comparatively underexplored.

By Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen, Wentao Zhang, Masaki Kitagawa, Zicen Xiong, Jinjie Li, Moju Zhao
arXiv AI
Sep 23

RiverVLN: Phase-Grounded Temporal Vision--Language Navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

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