arXiv:2606. 14879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile agents require efficient exploration strategies to map unseen environments and autonomously plan tasks.
By Venkata Naren Devarakonda, Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami
arXiv:2607. 20785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying navigation systems at scale requires a recipe that minimizes sensor assumptions, generalizes across robot embodiments, and trains efficiently.
By Arjun Majumdar, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Benjamin Tibi, Chris Bamford, Elliot Chane-Sane, Guillaume Lample, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Ludovic Ho Fuh, Mathieu Poiree, Olivier Duchenne, Rosalie Millner, Srijan Mishra, Theo Cachet, Thomas Chabal
arXiv:2512. 21201v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) requires robots to find target objects in unseen environments without task-specific fine-tuning or pre-built maps, a key capability for general-purpose service robots.
By Yu He, Da Huang, Zhenyang Liu, Zixiao Gu, Qiang Sun, Guangnan Ye, Yanwei Fu, Yu-Gang Jiang
arXiv:2603. 25937v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations.
By Maeva Guerrier, Karthik Soma, Jana Pavlasek, Giovanni Beltrame
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:2607. 18200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots in cluttered indoor spaces often fail not because they cannot generate collision-free paths, but because a fixed safety margin is mis-calibrated: conservative margins cause detours and timeouts, while permissive margins lead to near-boundary shortcuts under perception bias.
By Junyi Hu, Shuaihang Yuan, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Anthony Tzes, Yi Fang
arXiv:2603. 03953v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Safe visual navigation is critical for indoor mobile robots operating in cluttered environments.
By Jaewon Lee, Jaeseok Heo, Gunmin Lee, Howoong Jun, Jeongwoo Oh, Songhwai Oh
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:2607. 07885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic obstacle avoidance in unstructured outdoor environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous mobile robots, particularly when large-scale robot-specific training data and simulation-based policies are impractical.
By Erik Jagnandan, Mulugeta Haile, Gregory Barber, Pratik Chaudhari
arXiv:2602. 20055v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robot navigation typically assumes an obstacle-free path exists between start and goal.
By Apoorva Vashisth (Purdue University), Manav Kulshrestha (Purdue University), Pranav Bakshi (IIT Kharagpur), Damon Conover (DEVCOM Army Research Lab), Guillaume Sartoretti (National University of Singapore), Aniket Bera (Purdue University)
arXiv:2607. 11686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-cost unmanned ground vehicles are often used in indoor places like warehouses, inspection corridors, and farm rows, where painted floor lines guide the robot.
By Jakob Solberg Berntzen, Safia Fatima, Leon Moonen