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We propose VLM-Social-Nav, a novel Vision-Language Model (VLM) based navigation approach to compute a robot's motion in human-centered environments. Our goal is to make real-time decisions on robot actions that are socially compliant with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Daeun Song , Jing Liang , Amirreza Payandeh , Amir Hossain Raj , Xuesu Xiao , Dinesh Manocha

Visual navigation is an essential skill for home-assistance robots, providing the object-searching ability to accomplish long-horizon daily tasks. Many recent approaches use Large Language Models (LLMs) for commonsense inference to improve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinxin Zhao , Wenzhe Cai , Likun Tang , Teng Wang

We present ConVOI, a novel method for autonomous robot navigation in real-world indoor and outdoor environments using Vision Language Models (VLMs). We employ VLMs in two ways: first, we leverage their zero-shot image classification…

Mobile robots are increasingly required to navigate and interact within unknown and unstructured environments to meet human demands. Demand-driven navigation (DDN) enables robots to identify and locate objects based on implicit human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Yuehao Huang , Liang Liu , Shuangming Lei , Yukai Ma , Hao Su , Jianbiao Mei , Pengxiang Zhao , Yaqing Gu , Yong Liu , Jiajun Lv

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jin Wang , Kim Tien Ly , Jacques Cloete , Nikos Tsagarakis , Ioannis Havoutis

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a multi-modal, cooperative task requiring agents to interpret human instructions, navigate 3D environments, and communicate effectively under ambiguity. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nivedan Yakolli , Avinash Gautam , Abhijit Das , Yuankai Qi , Virendra Singh Shekhawat

We present DyNaVLM, an end-to-end vision-language navigation framework using Vision-Language Models (VLM). In contrast to prior methods constrained by fixed angular or distance intervals, our system empowers agents to freely select…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Zihe Ji , Huangxuan Lin , Yue Gao

Heterogeneous multirobot systems show great potential in complex tasks requiring coordinated hybrid cooperation. However, existing methods that rely on static or task-specific models often lack generalizability across diverse tasks and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Haokun Liu , Zhaoqi Ma , Yunong Li , Junichiro Sugihara , Yicheng Chen , Jinjie Li , Moju Zhao

Understanding how humans leverage semantic knowledge to navigate unfamiliar environments and decide where to explore next is pivotal for developing robots capable of human-like search behaviors. We introduce a zero-shot navigation approach,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Naoki Yokoyama , Sehoon Ha , Dhruv Batra , Jiuguang Wang , Bernadette Bucher

Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown and hazardous environments, a long-standing challenge, can be significantly improved by leveraging the advanced reasoning of Vision-Language Models (VLMs). We introduce a novel exploration pipeline…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Aarush Aitha , Avideh Zakhor

This work focuses on the problem of visual target navigation, which is very important for autonomous robots as it is closely related to high-level tasks. To find a special object in unknown environments, classical and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Vision language models (VLMs) have experienced rapid advancements through the integration of large language models (LLMs) with image-text pairs, yet they struggle with detailed regional visual understanding due to limited spatial awareness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qiushan Guo , Shalini De Mello , Hongxu Yin , Wonmin Byeon , Ka Chun Cheung , Yizhou Yu , Ping Luo , Sifei Liu

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to follow textual instructions to navigate through 3D environments. Traditional approaches use supervised learning methods, relying heavily on domain-specific datasets to train VLN…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yanyuan Qiao , Wenqi Lyu , Hui Wang , Zixu Wang , Zerui Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in 2D vision and language tasks. However, their ability to reason about spatial arrangements remains limited. In this work, we introduce Spatial Region GPT (SpatialRGPT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 An-Chieh Cheng , Hongxu Yin , Yang Fu , Qiushan Guo , Ruihan Yang , Jan Kautz , Xiaolong Wang , Sifei Liu

The advancement of embodied intelligence is accelerating the integration of robots into daily life as human assistants. This evolution requires robots to not only interpret high-level instructions and plan tasks but also perceive and adapt…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhichen Lou , Kechun Xu , Zhongxiang Zhou , Rong Xiong

The advent of immersive Virtual Reality applications has transformed various domains, yet their integration with advanced artificial intelligence technologies like Visual Language Models remains underexplored. This study introduces a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Mikhail Konenkov , Artem Lykov , Daria Trinitatova , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Vision-language models (VLMs) are essential to Embodied AI, enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments. They also serve as the foundation for the recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. Yet most evaluations of…

Goal-conditioned policies for robotic navigation can be trained on large, unannotated datasets, providing for good generalization to real-world settings. However, particularly in vision-based settings where specifying goals requires an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Dhruv Shah , Blazej Osinski , Brian Ichter , Sergey Levine