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Safe and high-speed navigation is a key enabling capability for real world deployment of robotic systems. A significant limitation of existing approaches is the computational bottleneck associated with explicit mapping and the limited field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Kapil D. Katyal , Adam Polevoy , Joseph Moore , Craig Knuth , Katie M. Popek

Lifelong embodied navigation requires agents to accumulate, retain, and exploit spatial-semantic experience across tasks, enabling efficient exploration in novel environments and rapid goal reaching in familiar ones. While object-centric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Botao Ren , Junjun Hu , Xinda Xue , Minghua Luo , Jintao Chen , Haochen Bai , Liangliang You , Mu Xu

Visual navigation tasks are critical for household service robots. As these tasks become increasingly complex, effective communication and collaboration among multiple robots become imperative to ensure successful completion. In recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pengying Wu , Yao Mu , Kangjie Zhou , Ji Ma , Junting Chen , Chang Liu

Visual navigation typically assumes the existence of at least one obstacle-free path between start and goal, which must be discovered/planned by the robot. However, in real-world scenarios, such as home environments and warehouses, clutter…

Major challenges in LLMs inference remain frequent memory bandwidth bottlenecks, computational redundancy, and inefficiencies in long-sequence processing. To address these issues, we propose LLM-CoOpt, a comprehensive algorithmhardware…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Jie Kong , Wei Wang , Jiehan Zhou , Chen Yu

In the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task, the agent is required to navigate to a destination following a natural language instruction. While learning-based approaches have been a major solution to the task, they suffer from high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Sijie Yu , Guang Tan

World models enable robots to conduct counterfactual reasoning in physical environments by predicting future world states. While conventional approaches often prioritize pixel-level reconstruction of future scenes, such detailed rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhiwei Zhang , Hui Zhang , Kaihong Huang , Chenghao Shi , Huimin Lu

We present SGoLAM, short for simultaneous goal localization and mapping, which is a simple and efficient algorithm for Multi-Object Goal navigation. Given an agent equipped with an RGB-D camera and a GPS/Compass sensor, our objective is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Junho Kim , Eun Sun Lee , Mingi Lee , Donsu Zhang , Young Min Kim

We present MM-Navigator, a GPT-4V-based agent for the smartphone graphical user interface (GUI) navigation task. MM-Navigator can interact with a smartphone screen as human users, and determine subsequent actions to fulfill given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 An Yan , Zhengyuan Yang , Wanrong Zhu , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Jianwei Yang , Yiwu Zhong , Julian McAuley , Jianfeng Gao , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

The Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task challenges agents to locate a specified object in an unseen environment by imagining unobserved regions of the scene. Prior approaches rely on deterministic and discriminative models to complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Badi Li , Ren-jie Lu , Yu Zhou , Jingke Meng , Wei-shi Zheng

In this project, our goal is to determine how to leverage the world-knowledge of pretrained large language models for efficient and robust learning in multiagent decision making. We examine this in a taxi routing and assignment problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Huangyuan Su , Aaron Walsman , Daniel Garces , Sham Kakade , Stephanie Gil

Object Goal Navigation (OGN) is a fundamental task for robots and AI, with key applications such as mobile robot image databases (MRID). In particular, mapless OGN is essential in scenarios involving unknown or dynamic environments. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Mitsuaki Uno , Kanji Tanaka , Daiki Iwata , Yudai Noda , Shoya Miyazaki , Kouki Terashima

In the field of instruction-following large vision-language models (LVLMs), the efficient deployment of these models faces challenges, notably due to the high memory demands of their key-value (KV) caches. Conventional cache management…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Zuyan Liu , Benlin Liu , Jiahui Wang , Yuhao Dong , Guangyi Chen , Yongming Rao , Ranjay Krishna , Jiwen Lu

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

Current robotic planning methods often rely on predicting multi-frame images with full pixel details. While this fine-grained approach can serve as a generic world model, it introduces two significant challenges for downstream policy…

Rapid adaptation in unseen environments is essential for scalable real-world autonomy, yet existing approaches rely on exhaustive exploration or rigid navigation policies that fail to generalize. We present VLN-Zero, a two-phase…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Neel P. Bhatt , Yunhao Yang , Rohan Siva , Pranay Samineni , Daniel Milan , Zhangyang Wang , Ufuk Topcu

Can the intrinsic relation between an object and the room in which it is usually located help agents in the Visual Navigation Task? We study this question in the context of Object Navigation, a problem in which an agent has to reach an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Tommaso Campari , Paolo Eccher , Luciano Serafini , Lamberto Ballan

Navigating unfamiliar environments remains one of the most persistent and critical challenges for people who are blind or have limited vision (BLV). Existing assistive tools often rely on online services or APIs, making them costly,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Dabbrata Das , Argho Deb Das , Farhan Sadaf , Azhar Uddin , Tirtho Mondal

Autonomous driving needs various line-of-sight sensors to perceive surroundings that could be impaired under diverse environment uncertainties such as visual occlusion and extreme weather. To improve driving safety, we explore to wirelessly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

Embodied agents are expected to perform object navigation in dynamic, open-world environments. However, existing approaches typically rely on static trajectories and a fixed set of object categories during training, overlooking the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ming-Ming Yu , Fei Zhu , Wenzhuo Liu , Yirong Yang , Qunbo Wang , Wenjun Wu , Jing Liu