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Embodied navigation requires an agent to map language and visual observations to a stream of spatial actions that drive a real robot through environments it has never seen. The dominant approach has been to scale vision-language-action…

We address the task of Vision-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) under the zero-shot setting. Zero-shot VLN-CE is particularly challenging due to the absence of expert demonstrations for training and minimal environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kehan Chen , Dong An , Yan Huang , Rongtao Xu , Yifei Su , Yonggen Ling , Ian Reid , Liang Wang

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have demonstrated strong semantic understanding and zero-shot generalization, yet most existing systems assume an accurate low-level controller with hand-crafted action "vocabulary" such as end-effector…

Visual target navigation in unknown environments is a crucial problem in robotics. Despite extensive investigation of classical and learning-based approaches in the past, robots lack common-sense knowledge about household objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Although vision-language navigation (VLN) has progressed rapidly, zero-shot VLN in continuous environments (VLN-CE) remains highly challenging when using lightweight vision-language models (VLMs), whose limited reasoning capacity makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kun Luo , Xiangyu Dong , Xiaoguang Ma , Haoran Zhao , Yaoming Zhou

Zero-shot navigation is a critical challenge in Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, where the ability to adapt to unfamiliar instructions and to act in unknown environments is essential. Existing supervised learning-based models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Dingbang Li , Wenzhou Chen , Xin Lin

Following human instructions to explore and search for a specified target in an unfamiliar environment is a crucial skill for mobile service robots. Most of the previous works on object goal navigation have typically focused on a single…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bangguo Yu , Yuzhen Liu , Lei Han , Hamidreza Kasaei , Tingguang Li , Ming Cao

The existing methods for Vision and Language Navigation in the Continuous Environment (VLN-CE) commonly incorporate a waypoint predictor to discretize the environment. This simplifies the navigation actions into a view selection task and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yue Zhang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

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

Zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) agents leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in generalization but suffer from insufficient spatial perception. Focusing on complex continuous environments, we categorize key perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Lu Yue , Yue Fan , Shiwei Lian , Yu Zhao , Jiaxin Yu , Liang Xie , Feitian Zhang

Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE), which links language instructions to perception and control in the real world, is a core capability of embodied robots. Recently, large-scale pretrained foundation models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yunheng Wang , Yuetong Fang , Taowen Wang , Yixiao Feng , Yawen Tan , Shuning Zhang , Peiran Liu , Yiding Ji , Renjing Xu

This paper proposes to solve the problem of Vision-and-Language Navigation with legged robots, which not only provides a flexible way for humans to command but also allows the robot to navigate through more challenging and cluttered scenes.…

We study the task of zero-shot vision-and-language navigation (ZS-VLN), a practical yet challenging problem in which an agent learns to navigate following a path described by language instructions without requiring any path-instruction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Peihao Chen , Xinyu Sun , Hongyan Zhi , Runhao Zeng , Thomas H. Li , Gaowen Liu , Mingkui Tan , Chuang Gan

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires agents to interpret natural language instructions while navigating unconstrained 3D spaces. Existing VLN-CE frameworks rely on a two-stage approach: a waypoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Wenqi Lyu , Jiatong Xia , Feras Dayoub , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks require an agent to follow textual instructions to navigate through 3D environments. Traditional approaches use supervised learning methods, relying heavily on domain-specific datasets to train VLN…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yanyuan Qiao , Wenqi Lyu , Hui Wang , Zixu Wang , Zerui Li , Yuan Zhang , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

The task of vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) aims at training an autonomous agent to perform low-level actions to navigate through 3D continuous surroundings using visual observations and language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Lu Yue , Dongliang Zhou , Liang Xie , Feitian Zhang , Ye Yan , Erwei Yin

Recent advances in Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) have leveraged multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to achieve zero-shot navigation. However, existing methods often rely on panoramic observations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Shi , Zerui Li , Yanyuan Qiao , Qi Wu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a popular paradigm for learning robot manipulation policies that can follow language instructions and generalize to novel scenarios. Recent works have begun to explore the incorporation of…

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) approaches have currently followed two primary paradigms: the end-to-end Vision-Language Model (VLM) policy fine-tuned on navigation trajectories to directly predict actions, and the zero-shot modular…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jingzhi Huang , Junkai Huang , Wenxuan Song , Haoyang Yang , Hailong Huang , Haoang Li , Yi Wang

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently been leveraged to generate robotic actions, forming Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, directly adapting a pretrained VLM for robotic control remains challenging, particularly when…

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