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Point goal navigation (PGN) is a mapless navigation approach that trains robots to visually navigate to goal points without relying on pre-built maps. Despite significant progress in handling complex environments using deep reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Riku Uemura , Kanji Tanaka , Kenta Tsukahara , Daiki Iwata

Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations. Despite growing real-world deployment, existing evaluations rely almost exclusively on success rate, whether the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Maeva Guerrier , Karthik Soma , Jana Pavlasek , Giovanni Beltrame

The growing demand for intelligent logistics, particularly fine-grained terminal delivery, underscores the need for autonomous UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)-based delivery systems. However, most existing last-mile delivery studies rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Xinyuan Zhang , Yonglin Tian , Fei Lin , Yue Liu , Jing Ma , Kornélia Sára Szatmáry , Fei-Yue Wang

VLN has achieved remarkable progress by scaling data and model capacity. However, the assumption of a static environment breaks down in real-world indoor scenarios, where robots inevitably encounter dynamic pedestrians. Existing human-aware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Haoxuan Xu , Tianfu Li , Wenbo Chen , Yi Liu , Jin Wu , Huashuo Lei , Yunfan Lou , Lujia Wang , Hesheng Wang , Haoang Li

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) enables the agent to navigate to a remote location in 3D environments following the natural language instruction. In this field, the agent is usually trained and evaluated in the navigation simulators,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zihan Wang , Xiangyang Li , Jiahao Yang , Yeqi Liu , Shuqiang Jiang

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) aims to develop agents capable of navigating in realistic environments. While recent cross-modal training approaches have significantly improved navigation performance in both indoor and outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Jungdae Lee , Taiki Miyanishi , Shuhei Kurita , Koya Sakamoto , Daichi Azuma , Yutaka Matsuo , Nakamasa Inoue

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is an emerging task that enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to navigate outdoor environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. However, due to the extended trajectories and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruipu Wu , Yige Zhang , Jinyu Chen , Linjiang Huang , Shifeng Zhang , Xu Zhou , Liang Wang , Si Liu

How can a robot navigate successfully in rich and diverse environments, indoors or outdoors, along office corridors or trails on the grassland, on the flat ground or the staircase? To this end, this work aims to address three challenges:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Bo Ai , Wei Gao , Vinay , David Hsu

This paper presents a novel approach to image-goal navigation by integrating 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with Visual Navigation Models (VNMs), a method we refer to as GSplatVNM. VNMs offer a promising paradigm for image-goal navigation by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kohei Honda , Takeshi Ishita , Yasuhiro Yoshimura , Ryo Yonetani

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is evolving from single-point pathfinding toward the more challenging Multi-Goal VLN. This task requires agents to accurately identify multiple entities while collaboratively reasoning over their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ling Luo , Qiangian Bai

Building on the unprecedented capabilities of large language models for command understanding and zero-shot recognition of multi-modal vision-language transformers, visual language navigation (VLN) has emerged as an effective way to address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Chashi Mahiul Islam , Shaeke Salman , Montasir Shams , Xiuwen Liu , Piyush Kumar

Most existing works solving Room-to-Room VLN problem only utilize RGB images and do not consider local context around candidate views, which lack sufficient visual cues about surrounding environment. Moreover, natural language contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingyang Huo , Qiang Sun , Boyan Jiang , Haitao Lin , Yanwei Fu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to navigate through the environment based on language instructions. In this paper, we aim to solve two key challenges in this task: utilizing multilingual instructions for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jialu Li , Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

Understanding user instructions and object spatial relations in surrounding environments is crucial for intelligent robot systems to assist humans in various tasks. The natural language and spatial reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Wenxi Wu , Jingjing Zhang , Martim Brandão

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural-language instructions in visually grounded environments, serving as a key capability for embodied robotic systems. Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Qitong Wang , Yijun Liang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Christopher Rasmussen

Although learning-based vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents can learn spatial knowledge implicitly from large-scale training data, zero-shot VLN agents lack this process, relying primarily on local observations for navigation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiwen Zhang , Zejun Li , Siyuan Wang , Xiangyu Shi , Zhongyu Wei , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) is a challenging task where an agent is required to navigate to a natural language described location via vision observations. The navigation abilities of the agent can be enhanced by the relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bowen Huang , Yanwei Zheng , Chuanlin Lan , Xinpeng Zhao , Yifei Zou , Dongxiao yu

Vision-language navigation (VLN) requires intelligent agents to navigate environments by interpreting linguistic instructions alongside visual observations, serving as a cornerstone task in Embodied AI. Current VLN research for unmanned…

Recent research efforts enable study for natural language grounded navigation in photo-realistic environments, e.g., following natural language instructions or dialog. However, existing methods tend to overfit training data in seen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Xin Eric Wang , Vihan Jain , Eugene Ie , William Yang Wang , Zornitsa Kozareva , Sujith Ravi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN), offering new possibilities for navigation decision-making that could benefit both robotic platforms and human users. However, real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xia Su , Ruiqi Chen , Benlin Liu , Jingwei Ma , Zonglin Di , Ranjay Krishna , Jon Froehlich