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Navigating efficiently to an object in an unexplored environment is a critical skill for general-purpose intelligent robots. Recent approaches to this object goal navigation problem have embraced a modular strategy, integrating classical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kaixian Qu , Jie Tan , Tingnan Zhang , Fei Xia , Cesar Cadena , Marco Hutter

The Multi-Object Search (MOS) problem involves navigating to a sequence of locations to maximize the likelihood of finding target objects while minimizing travel costs. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to the MOS problem, called…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Daniel Choi , Angus Fung , Haitong Wang , Aaron Hao Tan

The zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) in unknown open-ended environments coupled with semantically novel target often suffers from the significant decline in performance due to the neglect of high-dimensional implicit scene information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Chongshang Yan , Jiaxuan He , Delun Li , Yi Yang , Wenjie Song

Navigating to instance-level targets in complex environments is a challenging problem. Many existing zero-shot methods achieve strong performance by modeling the entire environment and leveraging large language models for scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingyu Li , Zhe Liu , Wenxiao Wu , Li Zhang

Zero-shot object navigation requires agents to locate unseen target objects in unfamiliar environments without prior maps or task-specific training which remains a significant challenge. Although recent advancements in vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Feng Wu , Wei Zuo , Wenliang Yang , Jun Xiao , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

Robot navigation methods allow mobile robots to operate in applications such as warehouses or hospitals. While the environment in which the robot operates imposes requirements on its navigation behavior, most existing methods do not allow…

Object goal visual navigation is a challenging task that aims to guide a robot to find the target object based on its visual observation, and the target is limited to the classes pre-defined in the training stage. However, in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Qianfan Zhao , Lu Zhang , Bin He , Hong Qiao , Zhiyong Liu

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to navigate to objects specified via open-ended natural language without predefined categories or prior environmental knowledge. While recent methods leverage foundation models or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ruimeng Liu , Xinhang Xu , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Grounding language to a navigating agent's observations can leverage pretrained multimodal foundation models to match perceptions to object or event descriptions. However, previous approaches remain disconnected from environment mapping,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chenguang Huang , Oier Mees , Andy Zeng , Wolfram Burgard

In everyday life, frequently used objects like cups often have unfixed positions and multiple instances within the same category, and their carriers frequently change as well. As a result, it becomes challenging for a robot to efficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yujie Tang , Meiling Wang , Yinan Deng , Zibo Zheng , Jiagui Zhong , Yufeng Yue

Enabling robots to understand the world in terms of objects is a critical building block towards higher level autonomy. The success of foundation models in vision has created the ability to segment and identify nearly all objects in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Kurran Singh , Tim Magoun , John J. Leonard

This paper addresses the problem of object-goal navigation in autonomous inspections in real-world environments. Object-goal navigation is crucial to enable effective inspections in various settings, often requiring the robot to identify…

Incremental open-vocabulary 3D instance-semantic mapping is essential for autonomous agents operating in complex everyday environments. However, it remains challenging due to the need for robust instance segmentation, real-time processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zilong Deng , Federico Tombari , Marc Pollefeys , Johanna Wald , Daniel Barath

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

Accurate perception of objects in the environment is important for improving the scene understanding capability of SLAM systems. In robotic and augmented reality applications, object maps with semantic and metric information show attractive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Xiao Han , Houxuan Liu , Yunchao Ding , Lu Yang

Object goal navigation aims to navigate an agent to locations of a given object category in unseen environments. Classical methods explicitly build maps of environments and require extensive engineering while lacking semantic information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Shizhe Chen , Thomas Chabal , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Object-goal navigation in open-vocabulary settings requires agents to locate novel objects in unseen environments, yet existing approaches suffer from opaque decision-making processes and low success rate on locating unseen objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Wentao Xiang , Haokang Zhang , Tianhang Yang , Zedong Chu , Ruihang Chu , Shichao Xie , Yujian Yuan , Jian Sun , Zhining Gu , Junjie Wang , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Yujiu Yang

Object navigation in open-world environments remains a formidable and pervasive challenge for robotic systems, particularly when it comes to executing long-horizon tasks that require both open-world object detection and high-level task…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daojie Peng , Jiahang Cao , Qiang Zhang , Jun Ma

To fully leverage the capabilities of mobile manipulation robots, it is imperative that they are able to autonomously execute long-horizon tasks in large unexplored environments. While large language models (LLMs) have shown emergent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Daniel Honerkamp , Martin Büchner , Fabien Despinoy , Tim Welschehold , Abhinav Valada

Detecting anomalous hazards in visual data, particularly in video streams, is a critical challenge in autonomous driving. Existing models often struggle with unpredictable, out-of-label hazards due to their reliance on predefined object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Shashank Shriram , Srinivasa Perisetla , Aryan Keskar , Harsha Krishnaswamy , Tonko Emil Westerhof Bossen , Andreas Møgelmose , Ross Greer