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ClearNav: Perception-Aligned Quadrotor Flight Using Differential-Physics
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KinoUAV: A Benchmark for Safe and Stable UAV Vision-Language Navigation with Kinodynamic Modeling
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.
arXiv AI
Sep 18
VLN on the Fly: An Onboard Vision-Language Navigation Stack for Aerial Robots
The paper introduces VLN on the Fly, an onboard vision‑language navigation stack for aerial robots that separates grounding, planning, and control into inspectable stages. A quantized vision‑language model grounds instructions to a coarse image cell, depth estimation lifts this to a 3D goal, a fast B‑spline planner generates a feasible trajectory, and a pretrained reinforcement learning policy translates the trajectory into motor commands. In controlled indoor flights, the stack achieved the target in 13 of 15 trials with a mean goal error of 5.72 cm and 39.3% GPU utilization, and successfully tracked collision‑free trajectories in cluttered environments.
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See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View
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 AI
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See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
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Anticipatory Risk-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Safe Flight Through Dynamic Clutter
arXiv:2607. 23565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safe quadrotor navigation in cluttered and dynamic environments depends not only on instantaneous geometric perception, but more critically on anticipating collision risks induced by relative motion.
arXiv AI
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SkyShield: Occupancy as a Safety Interface for Low-Altitude UAV Autonomy
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.