KinoUAV introduces a kinodynamic benchmark for UAV vision-language navigation, featuring a dataset and an agent that generate trajectories under velocity, acceleration, and jerk constraints. The benchmark incorporates directional free-space distance labels to guide safe motion decisions and a Cruise-Seek task that eases target search. Experiments show the KinoUAV-Agent achieves higher success rates with lower yaw and collision rates than existing methods.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently emerged as important remote sensing platforms, and UAV navigation has shown great potential in remote sensing applications. However, existing methods do n...
arXiv:2606. 20045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly.
UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly. This formulation makes it difficult to assess a critical capability of aerial embodied agents, namely whether a UAV can accurately ground a visible target and translate vision-language evidence into precise 3D motion once the target enters its field of view.
arXiv:2610.17419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous quadrotor flight in cluttered environment is an key capability for tasks like inspection and search. Navigation policies trained in simula...
arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.
arXiv:2606. 00747v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) autonomy, 3D spatial understanding is not merely a perception objective, but the safety interface between human instructions and physical flight.
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.
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.
arXiv:2609.13231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models demonstrate strong generalization in robotic manipulation and navigation, but existing fine-tuning methods provid...
arXiv:2609.36915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aerial manipulators extend robotic manipulation into 3D workspaces that are difficult for ground-based robots to access, creating new opportunities f...
arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.
UrbanVLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action framework designed to enable delivery robots to navigate large‑scale urban environments using long‑horizon route instructions. The model aligns noisy route waypoints with visual observations and plans trajectories, trained through a two‑stage pipeline of supervised fine‑tuning on simulated data and reinforcement fine‑tuning on mixed simulation and real‑world data. Experiments show UrbanVLA outperforms strong baselines by over 55% on the SocialNav task and demonstrates reliable real‑world navigation in large urban settings.