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Model-based planning and execution systems offer a principled approach to building flexible autonomous robots that can perform diverse tasks by automatically combining a host of basic skills. This idea is almost as old as modern robotics.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Or Wertheim , Ronen I. Brafman

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have become a cornerstone in robotic policy learning, leveraging large-scale multimodal data for robust and scalable control. However, existing VLA frameworks primarily address short-horizon tasks, and…

Object goal navigation is a fundamental task in embodied AI, where an agent is instructed to locate a target object in an unexplored environment. Traditional learning-based methods rely heavily on large-scale annotated data or require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Arnab Debnath , Gregory J. Stein , Jana Kosecka

We aim to control a robot to physically behave in the real world following any high-level language command like "cartwheel" or "kick". Although human motion datasets exist, this task remains particularly challenging since generative models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Shusheng Xu , Huaijie Wang , Jiaxuan Gao , Yutao Ouyang , Chao Yu , Yi Wu

General-purpose robotic skills from end-to-end demonstrations often leads to task-specific policies that fail to generalize beyond the training distribution. Therefore, we introduce FunCanon, a framework that converts long-horizon…

In this paper we outline the approach of solving special type of navigation tasks for robotic systems, when a coalition of robots (agents) acts in the 2D environment, which can be modified by the actions, and share the same goal location.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Aleksandr I. Panov , Konstantin Yakovlev

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are set to transform robotic navigation, existing methods often underutilize their reasoning capabilities. To unlock the full potential of VLMs in robotics, we shift their role from passive observers to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Mobin Habibpour , Fatemeh Afghah

The ability of Language Models (LMs) to understand natural language makes them a powerful tool for parsing human instructions into task plans for autonomous robots. Unlike traditional planning methods that rely on domain-specific knowledge…

In language-guided visual navigation, agents locate target objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions. For reliable navigation in unfamiliar scenes, agents should possess strong perception, planning, and prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yufeng Zhong , Chengjian Feng , Feng Yan , Fanfan Liu , Liming Zheng , Lin Ma

Embodied AI is an inevitable trend that emphasizes the interaction between intelligent entities and the real world, with broad applications in Robotics, especially target-driven navigation. This task requires the robot to find an object of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Junjia Liu , Jianfei Guo , Zehui Meng , Jingtao Xue

Vision-language-action (VLA) models are effective robot action executors, but they remain limited on long-horizon tasks due to the dual burden of extended closed-loop planning and diverse physical operations. We therefore propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zixing Lei , Changxing Liu , Yichen Xiong , Minhao Xiong , Yuanzhuo Ding , Zhipeng Zhang , Weixin Li , Siheng Chen

The aspiration of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task has long been to develop an embodied agent with robust adaptability, capable of seamlessly transferring its navigation capabilities across various tasks. Despite remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Siqi Zhang , Yanyuan Qiao , Qunbo Wang , Longteng Guo , Zhihua Wei , Jing Liu

An effective approach to solving long-horizon tasks in robotics domains with continuous state and action spaces is bilevel planning, wherein a high-level search over an abstraction of an environment is used to guide low-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Nishanth Kumar , Willie McClinton , Rohan Chitnis , Tom Silver , Tomás Lozano-Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Recent robotic task planning frameworks have integrated large multimodal models (LMMs) such as GPT-4o. To address grounding issues of such models, it has been suggested to split the pipeline into perceptional state grounding and subsequent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jonas Herzog , Jiangpin Liu , Yue Wang

This paper introduces KLong, an open-source LLM agent trained to solve extremely long-horizon tasks. The principle is to first cold-start the model via trajectory-splitting SFT, then scale it via progressive RL training. Specifically, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yue Liu , Yingwei Ma , Yibo Miao , Yanhao Li , Yuchong Xie , Xinlong Yang , Zhiyuan Hu , Flood Sung , Jiaheng Zhang , Bryan Hooi

Object-Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to find and navigate to a target object category in unknown environments. While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents exhibit zero-shot reasoning, they often rely on a "reactive"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yudai Noda , Kanji Tanaka

Successful application of large language models (LLMs) to robotic planning and execution may pave the way to automate numerous real-world tasks. Promising recent research has been conducted showing that the knowledge contained in LLMs can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ateeq Sharfuddin , Travis Breaux

The Object Navigation (ObjectNav) task aims to guide an agent to locate target objects in unseen environments using partial observations. Prior approaches have employed location prediction paradigms to achieve long-term goal reasoning, yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yiming Ji , Kaijie Yun , Yang Liu , Zhengpu Wang , Boyu Ma , Zongwu Xie , Hong Liu

Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kapil Katyal , Katie Popek , Chris Paxton , Joseph Moore , Kevin Wolfe , Philippe Burlina , Gregory D. Hager

In this paper, we are introducing a novel model of artificial intelligence, the functional neural network for modeling of human decision-making processes. This neural network is composed of multiple artificial neurons racing in the network.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Frederic Jumelle , Kelvin So , Didan Deng