arXiv AI

Insect-inspired Visual Point-goal Navigation

arXiv:2601. 16806v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Insect neuroethology provides a compelling biological template for efficient autonomous navigation.

arXiv AI
Jul 8

SpatialFly: Implicit 3D Prior-Guided Visual Reparameterization for Continuous UAV Vision-and-Language Navigation

arXiv:2603. 21046v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: UAVs play an important role in applications such as autonomous exploration, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection.

By Wen Jiang, Kangyao Huang, Li Wang, Wang Xu, Wei Fan, Jinyuan Liu, Shaoyu Liu, Hanfang Liang, Hongwei Duan, Bin Xu, Xiangyang Ji, Huaping Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 3

AirDreamer: Generalist Drone Navigation with World Models

arXiv:2606. 03252v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Navigating a drone in unseen and cluttered environments requires reliable generalization to unseen scene layouts and understanding of environmental structure relative to the robot's capabilities.

By Zian Liu, Andong Yang, Chunkai Yang, Ruidong An, Chao Gao, Guyue Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Dynamic Object Masks as Goal Representations for Visual Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510. 06277v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) offers a unified way to pursue diverse tasks, yet most existing methods rely on state- or position-based goal representations that are unavailable in real-world robotics.

By Fahim Shahriar, Cheryl Wang, Alireza Azimi, Gautham Vasan, Hany Hamed, Abhishek Naik, A. Rupam Mahmood, Colin Bellinger
arXiv AI
1d ago

Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608. 16794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language and vision-language models generate plausible embodied plans but do not guarantee executability, as their outputs can violate environment dynamics or act on incorrectly grounded entities.

By Mohammad Albinhassan, Yuming Feng, Alessandra Russo, Pranava Madhyastha