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Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) enables agents to navigate towards open-vocabulary objects in unknown environments. The existing works of ZSON mainly focus on following individual instructions to find generic object classes, neglecting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Yinpei Dai , Run Peng , Sikai Li , Joyce Chai

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow long-horizon instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. However, existing approaches face two major challenges: constructing an effective long-term memory bank and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zihao Xin , Wentong Li , Yixuan Jiang , Bin Wang , Runmin Cong , Jie Qin , Shengjun Huang

Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate through realistic 3D outdoor environments based on natural language instructions. The performance of existing VLN methods is limited by insufficient diversity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Jialu Li , Aishwarya Padmakumar , Gaurav Sukhatme , Mohit Bansal

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN), requiring drones to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments, emerges as a critical embodied AI challenge that bridges human-robot interaction, 3D spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Shiquan Yu , Ruiying Peng , Baining Zhao , Qian Zhang , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

Capitalizing on the remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a burgeoning initiative to harness LLMs for instruction following robotic navigation. Such a trend underscores the potential of LLMs to generalize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Zun Wang , Xin Eric Wang , Qi Wu

Legged robots are physically capable of navigating a diverse variety of environments and overcoming a wide range of obstructions. For example, in a search and rescue mission, a legged robot could climb over debris, crawl through gaps, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Annie S. Chen , Alec M. Lessing , Andy Tang , Govind Chada , Laura Smith , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

UAV vision-language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate complex 3D environments from an egocentric perspective while following ambiguous multi-step instructions over long horizons. Existing zero-shot methods remain limited, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Dian Shao , Zhengzheng Xu , Peiyang Wang , Like Liu , Yule Wang , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo

Open-vocabulary mobile manipulation (OVMM) that involves the handling of novel and unseen objects across different workspaces remains a significant challenge for real-world robotic applications. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Shen Tan , Dong Zhou , Xiangyu Shao , Junqiao Wang , Guanghui Sun

Large language models (LLMs) have unlocked new capabilities of task planning from human instructions. However, prior attempts to apply LLMs to real-world robotic tasks are limited by the lack of grounding in the surrounding scene. In this…

Embodied navigation for long-horizon tasks, guided by complex natural language instructions, remains a formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Existing agents often struggle with robust long-term planning about unseen environments,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Fei Liu , Shichao Xie , Minghua Luo , Zedong Chu , Junjun Hu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu

Autonomous ground robots operating in large-scale outdoor environments require both robust long-range navigation and fine-grained ''last-mile'' exploration. Current advances in visual-language navigation (VLN) work well at short-range…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Dongzhihan Wang , Yi Du , Jianan Sun , Yuan Xue , Yingchen Zhang , Bing Xiao , Chen Wang , Liang Xu

Interactive robots navigating photo-realistic environments need to be trained to effectively leverage and handle the dynamic nature of dialogue in addition to the challenges underlying vision-and-language navigation (VLN). In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Ayush Shrivastava , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Yang Liu , Robinson Piramuthu , Gokhan Tür , Devi Parikh , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

In this paper, we present LOC-ZSON, a novel Language-driven Object-Centric image representation for object navigation task within complex scenes. We propose an object-centric image representation and corresponding losses for visual-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianrui Guan , Yurou Yang , Harry Cheng , Muyuan Lin , Richard Kim , Rajasimman Madhivanan , Arnie Sen , Dinesh Manocha

In most existing embodied navigation tasks, instructions are well-defined and unambiguous, such as instruction following and object searching. Under this idealized setting, agents are required solely to produce effective navigation outputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wensi Huang , Shaohao Zhu , Meng Wei , Jinming Xu , Xihui Liu , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Feng Zhao , Jiangmiao Pang

Object search is a fundamental task for robots deployed in indoor building environments, yet challenges arise due to observation instability, especially for open-vocabulary models. While foundation models (LLMs/VLMs) enable reasoning about…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qianwei Wang , Yifan Xu , Vineet Kamat , Carol Menassa

Embodied navigation presents a core challenge for intelligent robots, requiring the comprehension of visual environments, natural language instructions, and autonomous exploration. Existing models often fall short in offering a unified…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinda Xue , Junjun Hu , Minghua Luo , Shichao Xie , Jintao Chen , Zixun Xie , Kuichen Quan , Wei Guo , Mu Xu , Zedong Chu

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) stands as a key research problem of Embodied AI, aiming at enabling agents to navigate in unseen environments following linguistic instructions. In this field, generalization is a long-standing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiazhao Zhang , Kunyu Wang , Rongtao Xu , Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Xiaomeng Fang , Qi Wu , Zhizheng Zhang , He Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have gained increasing popularity in robotic task planning due to their exceptional abilities in text analytics and generation, as well as their broad knowledge of the world. However, they fall short in decoding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Aoran Mei , Guo-Niu Zhu , Huaxiang Zhang , Zhongxue Gan

Object-goal navigation requires mobile robots to efficiently locate targets with visual and spatial information, yet existing methods struggle with generalization in unseen environments. Heuristic approaches with naive metrics fail in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Mengying Lin , Shugao Liu , Dingxi Zhang , Yaran Chen , Zhaoran Wang , Haoran Li , Dongbin Zhao

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