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From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

arXiv:2606. 12603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous long-horizon sidewalk navigation is essential for micro-mobility applications such as robotic food delivery and assistive electronic wheelchairs.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 17

Can Vision Foundation Models Navigate? Zero-Shot Real-World Evaluation and Lessons Learned

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 9

HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation

arXiv:2607. 07357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Effective social robot navigation requires sensitivity to human behavior, often revealed through subtle skeletal cues like gait and orientation.

By Daeun Song, Nhat Le, Jeffrey Chen, Mohammad Nazeri, Amirreza Payandeh, Rohan Chandra, Reuth Mirsky, Ross Mead, Ling Xiao, Xuesu Xiao

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

PerceptTwin: Semantic Scene Reconstruction for Iterative LLM Planning and Verification

arXiv:2606. 04226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulation environments are useful for both robot policy learning and planning verification and validation.

By Charlie Gauthier, Sacha Morin, Liam Paull

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.

By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 15

APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model

arXiv:2603. 08862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autonomous navigation in highly constrained environments remains challenging for mobile robots.

By Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu, Yang Li, Xiaomin Lin, Chengzhi Mao, Xuesu Xiao

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arXiv AI

Jul 24

Robostral Navigate

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

TerraTransfer: Learning End-to-End Driving Policies Without Expert Demonstrations

arXiv:2606. 17386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end autonomous driving has achieved state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and real-world deployments.

By Zikang Xiong, Weixin Li, Zhouchonghao Wu, Akshay Rangesh, Saarth Bonde, Grantland Hall, Chen Tang, Yihan Hu, Wei Zhan

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arXiv AI

Jul 10

Shift & Drift: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Generalizable and Robust Autonomous Driving Motion Planning

arXiv:2607. 07844v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While closed-loop motion planners trained on large-scale, object-level datasets, e.

By Alessandro Canevaro, Hang Yu, Julian Schmidt, Peizheng Li, Silvan Lindner, Wilhelm Stork, Georg Martius, Julian Jordan

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Discrete-Time Gaussian Process Mixtures for Robot Policy Learning

arXiv:2505. 03296v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Mixture of Discrete-time Gaussian Processes (MiDiGap), a novel approach for flexible policy representation and imitation learning in robot manipulation.

By Jan Ole von Hartz, Adrian R\"ofer, Joschka Boedecker, Abhinav Valada

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

Visual Verification Enables Inference-time Steering and Autonomous Policy Improvement

arXiv:2606. 18247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots deployed in the real world should learn from their experience and improve over time.

By Mingtong Zhang, Dhruv Shah

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

RVN-Bench: A Benchmark for Reactive Visual Navigation

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Driving, Fast or Slow? Neuro-Symbolic Guidance for Motion Prediction in Multi-Modal Ground Mobility

arXiv:2606. 15251v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate and interpretable motion prediction for heterogeneous traffic spaces, including pedestrians, bicycles, cars, and trucks, is essential for safe autonomous navigation.

By Simon Kohaut, Felix Divo, Julius Hahnewald, Benedict Flade, Julian Eggert, Kristian Kersting, Devendra Singh Dhami

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