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Online ride-hailing platforms aim to deliver efficient mobility-on-demand services, often facing challenges in balancing dynamic and spatially heterogeneous supply and demand. Existing methods typically fall into two categories:…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yi Zhang , Yushen Long , Yun Ni , Liping Huang , Xiaohong Wang , Jun Liu

Navigating to out-of-sight targets from human instructions in unfamiliar environments is a core capability for service robots. Despite substantial progress, most approaches underutilize reusable, persistent memory, constraining performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haochen Niu , Lantao Zhang , Xingwu Ji , Rendong Ying , Peilin Liu , Fei Wen

In this paper, we develop an embodied AI system for human-in-the-loop navigation with a wheeled mobile robot. We propose a direct yet effective method of monitoring the robot's current plan to detect changes in the environment that impact…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Cody Simons , Zhichao Liu , Brandon Marcus , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Konstantinos Karydis

Mobile robot path planning in complex environments remains a significant challenge, especially in achieving efficient, safe and robust paths. The traditional path planning techniques like DRL models typically trained for a given…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Muhammad Taha Tariq , Congqing Wang , Yasir Hussain

In this paper, a method for generating a map from path information described using natural language (textual path) is proposed. In recent years, robotics research mainly focus on vision-and-language navigation (VLN), a navigation task based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Hideki Deguchi , Kazuki Shibata , Shun Taguchi

With the growing demand for efficient logistics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly being paired with automated guided vehicles (AGVs). While UAVs offer the ability to navigate through dense environments and varying altitudes,…

In this paper, we propose a 3D path planning method that integrates the A* algorithm with the octree structure. Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) and legged robots have been extensively studied, enabling locomotion across a variety of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Byeong-Il Ham , Hyun-Bin Kim , Kyung-Soo Kim

As modern networks grow in scale and complexity, manual configuration becomes increasingly inefficient and prone to human error. While intent-driven self-configuration using large language models has shown significant promise, such models…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Oscar G. Lira , Oscar M. Caicedo , Nelson L. S. Da Fonseca

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in solving natural language-described planning tasks, but their direct use often leads to inconsistent reasoning and hallucination. While hybrid LLM-symbolic planning pipelines have emerged as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Sukai Huang , Nir Lipovetzky , Trevor Cohn

Strategic planning is critical for multi-step reasoning, yet compact Large Language Models (LLMs) often lack the capacity to formulate global strategies, leading to error propagation in long-horizon tasks. Our analysis reveals that LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haoyu Zheng , Yun Zhu , Yuqian Yuan , Bo Yuan , Wenqiao Zhang , Siliang Tang , Jun Xiao

The remote embodied referring expression (REVERIE) task requires an agent to navigate through complex indoor environments and localize a remote object specified by high-level instructions, such as "bring me a spoon", without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Bahram Mohammadi , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Yuankai Qi , Qi Wu , Anton Van Den Hengel , Javen Qinfeng Shi

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

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled the automatic generation of step-by-step augmented reality (AR) instructions for a wide range of physical tasks. However, existing LLM-based AR guidance often lacks rich visual augmentations to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Ada Yi Zhao , Aditya Gunturu , Ellen Yi-Luen Do , Ryo Suzuki

We present a novel method for generating, predicting, and using Spatiotemporal Occupancy Grid Maps (SOGM), which embed future information of dynamic scenes. Our automated generation process creates groundtruth SOGMs from previous navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Hugues Thomas , Matthieu Gallet de Saint Aurin , Jian Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

This paper proposes an interactive navigation framework by using large language and vision-language models, allowing robots to navigate in environments with traversable obstacles. We utilize the large language model (GPT-3.5) and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhen Zhang , Anran Lin , Chun Wai Wong , Xiangyu Chu , Qi Dou , K. W. Samuel Au

Recently, numerous algorithms have been developed to tackle the problem of vision-language navigation (VLN), i.e., entailing an agent to navigate 3D environments through following linguistic instructions. However, current VLN agents simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Hanqing Wang , Wenguan Wang , Wei Liang , Caiming Xiong , Jianbing Shen

Despite real-time planners exhibiting remarkable performance in autonomous driving, the growing exploration of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened avenues for enhancing the interpretability and controllability of motion planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Yuan Chen , Zi-han Ding , Ziqin Wang , Yan Wang , Lijun Zhang , Si Liu

We present a hierarchical language-driven framework for robotic task and motion planning to improve natural, intuitive human-robot interaction in service and assistance scenarios. The proposed system employs two large language model (LLM)…

Cost-efficient path planning across multiple terrains is a crucial task in robot navigation, requiring the identification of a path from the start to the goal that not only avoids obstacles but also minimizes the overall travel cost. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ling Xiao , Toshihiko Yamasaki

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) creates an exciting potential for flexible, general knowledge-driven Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems for assistive robots. Existing HRI systems demonstrate great progress in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jens V. Rüppel , Andrey Rudenko , Tim Schreiter , Martin Magnusson , Achim J. Lilienthal