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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

In the context of visual navigation, the capacity to map a novel environment is necessary for an agent to exploit its observation history in the considered place and efficiently reach known goals. This ability can be associated with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pierre Marza , Laetitia Matignon , Olivier Simonin , Christian Wolf

Recent advancements in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have enhanced the creation of high-quality digital assets, yet existing methods struggle to generalize across varying object shapes, textures, and occlusions. While Next Best…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Zhenghao Qi , Shenghai Yuan , Fen Liu , Haozhi Cao , Tianchen Deng , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Aerial vision-language navigation (AVLN) enables UAVs to follow natural-language instructions in complex 3D environments. However, existing zero-shot AVLN methods often suffer from unstable single-stream Vision-Language Model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Guiyong Zheng , Yueting Ban , Mingjie Zhang , Juepeng Zheng , Boyu Zhou

Path planning for robotic exploration is challenging, requiring reasoning over unknown spaces and anticipating future observations. Efficient exploration requires selecting budget-constrained paths that maximize information gain. Despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Narek Harutyunyan , Brady Moon , Seungchan Kim , Cherie Ho , Adam Hung , Sebastian Scherer

PointGoal Navigation is an embodied task that requires agents to navigate to a specified point in an unseen environment. Wijmans et al. showed that this task is solvable but their method is computationally prohibitive, requiring 2.5 billion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Joel Ye , Dhruv Batra , Erik Wijmans , Abhishek Das

This paper introduces a high-performance artificial intelligence operating system tailored for low-altitude aviation, designed to address key challenges such as real-time task execution, computational efficiency, and seamless modular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Minzhe Tan , Xinlin Fan , Jian He , Yi Hou , Zhan Liu , Yaopeng Jiang , Y. M. Jiang

Target search with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is relevant problem to many scenarios, e.g., search and rescue (SaR). However, a key challenge is planning paths for maximal search efficiency given flight time constraints. To address…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Ajith Anil Meera , Marija Popovic , Alexander Millane , Roland Siegwart

Autonomous exploration using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is essential for various tasks such as building inspections, rescue operations, deliveries, and warehousing. However, there are two main limitations to previous approaches: they…

Recent years have seen embodied visual navigation advance in two distinct directions: (i) in equipping the AI agent to follow natural language instructions, and (ii) in making the navigable world multimodal, e.g., audio-visual navigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Sudipta Paul , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Anoop Cherian

Conventional navigation pipelines for legged robots remain largely geometry-centric, relying on dense SLAM representations that are fragile under rapid motion and offer limited support for semantic decision making in open-world exploration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guoyang Zhao , Yudong Li , Weiqing Qi , Kai Zhang , Bonan Liu , Kai Chen , Haoang Li , Jun Ma

The ability to efficiently plan and execute automated and precise search missions using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during emergency response situations is imperative. Precise navigation between obstacles and time-efficient searching of…

Recent research on instructable agents has used memory-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) as task planners, a technique that retrieves language-program examples relevant to the input instruction and uses them as in-context examples in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Gabriel Sarch , Sahil Somani , Raghav Kapoor , Michael J. Tarr , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a principal approach for studying complex systems. By decomposing a system into simpler, interacting agents, agent-based modeling (ABM) allows researchers to observe the emergence of complex phenomena.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Siddharth Chaturvedi , Ahmed El-Gazzar , Marcel van Gerven

We present LGX (Language-guided Exploration), a novel algorithm for Language-Driven Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation (L-ZSON), where an embodied agent navigates to a uniquely described target object in a previously unseen environment. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Vishnu Sashank Dorbala , James F. Mullen , Dinesh Manocha

Model-based reinforcement learning is a powerful tool, but collecting data to fit an accurate model of the system can be costly. Exploring an unknown environment in a sample-efficient manner is hence of great importance. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Matthieu Blanke , Marc Lelarge

Efficient exploration is an unsolved problem in Reinforcement Learning which is usually addressed by reactively rewarding the agent for fortuitously encountering novel situations. This paper introduces an efficient active exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Pranav Shyam , Wojciech Jaśkowski , Faustino Gomez

Agile humanoid locomotion in complex 3D en- vironments requires balancing perceptual fidelity with com- putational efficiency, yet existing methods typically rely on rigid sensing configurations. We propose ADAPT (Adaptive dual-projection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shuo Shao , Tianchen Huang , Wei Gao , Shiwu Zhang

Language-guided embodied navigation requires an agent to interpret object-referential instructions, search across multiple rooms, localize the referenced target, and execute reliable motion toward it. Existing systems remain limited in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhongyuang Liu , Min He , Shaonan Yu , Xinhang Xu , Muqing Cao , Jianping Li , Jianfei Yang , Lihua Xie

Constructing compact and informative 3D scene representations is essential for effective embodied exploration and reasoning, especially in complex environments over extended periods. Existing representations, such as object-centric 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuncong Yang , Han Yang , Jiachen Zhou , Peihao Chen , Hongxin Zhang , Yilun Du , Chuang Gan