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Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Auto-GPT is an autonomous agent that leverages recent advancements in adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) for decision-making tasks. While there has been a growing interest in Auto-GPT stypled agents, questions remain regarding the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hui Yang , Sifu Yue , Yunzhong He

We present a target-driven navigation system to improve mapless visual navigation in indoor scenes. Our method takes a multi-view observation of a robot and a target as inputs at each time step to provide a sequence of actions that move the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Qiaoyun Wu , Xiaoxi Gong , Kai Xu , Dinesh Manocha , Jingxuan Dong , Jun Wang

Audio-Visual Embodied Navigation aims to enable agents to autonomously navigate to sound sources in unknown 3D environments using auditory cues. While current AVN methods excel on in-distribution sound sources, they exhibit poor…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yi Wang , Yinfeng Yu , Fuchun Sun , Liejun Wang , Wendong Zheng

Animal navigation research posits that organisms build and maintain internal spatial representations, or maps, of their environment. We ask if machines -- specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) navigation agents -- also build implicit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Erik Wijmans , Manolis Savva , Irfan Essa , Stefan Lee , Ari S. Morcos , Dhruv Batra

The rapid advancement of neural language models has sparked a new surge of intelligent agent research. Unlike traditional agents, large language model-based agents (LLM agents) have emerged as a promising paradigm for achieving artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Cong Zhang , Derrick Goh Xin Deik , Dexun Li , Hao Zhang , Yong Liu

Inspired by research in psychology, we introduce a behavioral approach for visual navigation using topological maps. Our goal is to enable a robot to navigate from one location to another, relying only on its visual input and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Kevin Chen , Juan Pablo de Vicente , Gabriel Sepulveda , Fei Xia , Alvaro Soto , Marynel Vazquez , Silvio Savarese

Object-goal navigation (ObjNav) tasks an agent with navigating to the location of a specific object in an unseen environment. Embodied agents equipped with large language models (LLMs) and online constructed navigation maps can perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Zebin Yang , Sunjian Zheng , Tong Xie , Tianshi Xu , Bo Yu , Fan Wang , Jie Tang , Shaoshan Liu , Meng Li

In this paper, we introduce the map-language navigation task where an agent executes natural language instructions and moves to the target position based only on a given 3D semantic map. To tackle the task, we design the instruction-aware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Zehao Wang , Mingxiao Li , Minye Wu , Marie-Francine Moens , Tinne Tuytelaars

Learning to navigate in a visual environment following natural-language instructions is a challenging task, because the multimodal inputs to the agent are highly variable, and the training data on a new task is often limited. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Weituo Hao , Chunyuan Li , Xiujun Li , Lawrence Carin , Jianfeng Gao

World model-based searching and planning are widely recognized as a promising path toward human-level physical intelligence. However, current driving world models primarily rely on video diffusion models, which specialize in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuntao Chen , Yuqi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of vision-language tasks. However, their performance as embodied agents, which requires multi-round dialogue spatial reasoning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xunyi Zhao , Gengze Zhou , Qi Wu

Navigation is an essential ability for mobile agents to be completely autonomous and able to perform complex actions. However, the problem of navigation for agents with limited (or no) perception of the world, or devoid of a fully defined…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Danilo Perico , Paulo E. Santos , Reinaldo Bianchi

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer significant promise for intelligent traffic management; however, current chain-based systems like TrafficGPT are hindered by sequential task execution, high token usage, and poor scalability, making them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Nabil Abdelaziz Ferhat Taleb , Abdolazim Rezaei , Raj Atulkumar Patel , Mehdi Sookhak

With their prominent scene understanding and reasoning capabilities, pre-trained visual-language models (VLMs) such as GPT-4V have attracted increasing attention in robotic task planning. Compared with traditional task planning strategies,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aoran Mei , Jianhua Wang , Guo-Niu Zhu , Zhongxue Gan

We present MG-Nav (Memory-Guided Navigation), a dual-scale framework for zero-shot visual navigation that unifies global memory-guided planning with local geometry-enhanced control. At its core is the Sparse Spatial Memory Graph (SMG), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bo Wang , Jiehong Lin , Chenzhi Liu , Xinting Hu , Yifei Yu , Tianjia Liu , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

Decision-makers in GIS need to combine a series of spatial algorithms and operations to solve geospatial tasks. For example, in the task of facility siting, the Buffer tool is usually first used to locate areas close or away from some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yifan Zhang , Cheng Wei , Shangyou Wu , Zhengting He , Wenhao Yu

Visual language navigation (VLN) is an embodied task demanding a wide range of skills encompassing understanding, perception, and planning. For such a multifaceted challenge, previous VLN methods totally rely on one model's own thinking to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yuxing Long , Xiaoqi Li , Wenzhe Cai , Hao Dong

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires agents to interpret natural language instructions while navigating unconstrained 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE frameworks rely on a two-stage approach: a waypoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Wenqi Lyu , Jiatong Xia , Feras Dayoub , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Object Goal Navigation-requiring an agent to locate a specific object in an unseen environment-remains a core challenge in embodied AI. Although recent progress in Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based agents has demonstrated promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dujun Nie , Xianda Guo , Yiqun Duan , Ruijun Zhang , Long Chen