arXiv AI
Sep 17

Visual Cue Guided Video Planning for Generalizable Robot Navigation

CueNav is a video model-based navigation framework that uses visual cues—a Bird's-Eye View map for global task context and a body-aware egocentric view for embodiment context—to guide a video planner. The framework couples this planner with an embodiment-specific Inverse-Dynamics Model that translates dense flow fields from the video plan into robot actions. Experiments show that CueNav nearly doubles maze navigation success compared to cue-less planning and achieves 70% success in narrow passages, while also supporting zero-shot semantic-conditioned navigation across different robot platforms.

By Hojin Lee, Sizhe Lester Li, Maximilian Hilger, Susie Lu, Achim J. Lilienthal, Vincent Sitzmann, Daniel A. Duecker
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

DeVA: Decoupled Video-Action Model with physical guidance for robot policy learning

Generalizable robot manipulation requires policies that can anticipate how visual scenes evolve while executing language instructions. While recent Vision-Language-Action models benefit from large-scale pretraining, their predominantly static pretraining objectives provide limited supervision for physical dynamics and temporal causality, leaving control-relevant knowledge to be learned from downstream robot demonstrations.

arXiv AI
Jun 30

Pondering the Way: Spatial-perceiving World Action Model for Embodied Navigation

arXiv:2606. 29908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing world model-based planners for visual navigation typically follow a verification-centric paradigm, decoupling goal intent from trajectory synthesis.

By Hong Chen, Daqi Liu, Zehan Zhang, Haiguang Wang, Tianhao Lu, Longfei Yan, Haiyang Sun, Fangzhen Li, Hongwei Xie, Bing Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Yihua Tan