arXiv AI
Jun 6
WorldFly: A World-Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation
arXiv:2606. 06147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation.
Uncertainty-Aware World Model for Aerial Image-Goal Navigation
Aerial image-goal navigation requires an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to reach a target location specified by a goal image. Existing world-model-based methods rank candidate trajectories using predicted futures, but typically rely on only one or a few point predictions, which is inadequate for large-scale outdoor environments with substantial future-state uncertainty.
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Schr\"odinger's Navigator: Imagining an Ensemble of Futures for Zero-Shot Object Navigation
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VISTA: Scale-Aware Visual Navigation via Action History Conditioning
arXiv:2606. 17294v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Navigation Foundation Models (VNMs) promise end-to-end learned navigation policies capable of zero-shot deployment across diverse embodiments and environments.
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AgenticDiffusion: Agentic Diffusion-based Path Planning for Vision-Based UAV Navigation
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.
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NavWM: A Unified Navigation World Model for Foresight-Driven Planning
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Jul 21
No Training, Better Flights: Test-Time Scaled VLMs for UAV Navigation
Test-time scaling offers a promising method to improve the inference performance of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) without additional training. Existing approaches to vision-language navigation (VLN) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) typically relies on a single inference pass, which can falter in complex environments by producing suboptimal or unsafe trajectories.
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.
arXiv AI
Jul 24
VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method
arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.
arXiv AI
Jul 22
SKETCH: Semantic Key-Point Conditioning for Long-Horizon Vessel Trajectory Prediction
arXiv:2601. 18537v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate long-horizon vessel trajectory prediction remains challenging due to compounded uncertainty from complex navigation behaviors and environmental factors.
arXiv AI
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From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation
arXiv:2608. 09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations.
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UniNav: A Unified World-Action Diffusion Model for Visual Navigation
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arXiv AI
Jul 10
FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation
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