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Zero-shot object-goal navigation (ZSON) is a challenging problem in robotics that requires a comprehensive understanding of both language and visual observations. Contextual cues from rooms and objects are critical, but their relative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Taeyun Kim , Alvin Jinsung Choi , Dasol Hong , Hyun Myung

Zero-Shot Object Navigation (ZSON) requires agents to autonomously locate and approach unseen objects in unfamiliar environments and has emerged as a particularly challenging task within the domain of Embodied AI. Existing datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Ji Ma , Hongming Dai , Yao Mu , Pengying Wu , Hao Wang , Xiaowei Chi , Yang Fei , Shanghang Zhang , Chang Liu

Understanding and following natural language instructions while navigating through complex, real-world environments poses a significant challenge for general-purpose robots. These environments often include obstacles and pedestrians, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Xiwen Liang , Liang Ma , Shanshan Guo , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Shikui Ma , Xiaodan Liang

Object navigation is crucial for robots, but traditional methods require substantial training data and cannot be generalized to unknown environments. Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) aims to address this challenge, allowing robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Congcong Wen , Yisiyuan Huang , Hao Huang , Yanjia Huang , Shuaihang Yuan , Yu Hao , Hui Lin , Yu-Shen Liu , Yi Fang

Zero-shot object navigation (ZSON) allows robots to find target objects in unfamiliar environments using natural language instructions, without relying on pre-built maps or task-specific training. Recent general-purpose models, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zibo Zhou , Yue Hu , Lingkai Zhang , Zonglin Li , Siheng Chen

Robots are increasingly deployed in dynamic and crowded environments, such as urban areas and shopping malls, where efficient and robust navigation is crucial. Traditional risk-based motion planning algorithms face challenges in such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zhirui Sun , Bingyi Xia , Peijia Xie , Xiaoxiao Li , Jiankun Wang

Navigating toward specific objects in unknown environments without additional training, known as Zero-Shot object navigation, poses a significant challenge in the field of robotics, which demands high levels of auxiliary information and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Lingfeng Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Hao Wang , Erjia Xiao , Zixuan Jiang , Honglei Chen , Renjing Xu

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

Zero-shot Object Navigation (ZSON) has shown promise for open-vocabulary target search in unseen environments, yet most existing systems remain tied to planar representations and single-floor assumptions. These assumptions become inadequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Han Zheng , Zhe Chen , Yudong Huang , Haoran Liu , Jinghao Wang , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Automatic target recognition (ATR) plays a critical role in tasks such as navigation and surveillance, where safety and accuracy are paramount. In extreme use cases, such as military applications, these factors are often challenged due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yasiru Ranasinghe , Vibashan VS , James Uplinger , Celso De Melo , Vishal M. Patel

Distance-based reward mechanisms in deep reinforcement learning (DRL) navigation systems suffer from critical safety limitations in dynamic environments, frequently resulting in collisions when visibility is restricted. We propose DRL-NSUO,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mingao Tan , Shanze Wang , Biao Huang , Zhibo Yang , Rongfei Chen , Xiaoyu Shen , Wei Zhang

Object Navigation (ObjectNav) is a fundamental task in embodied artificial intelligence. Although significant progress has been made in semantic map construction and target direction prediction in current research, redundant exploration and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junjie Li , Nan Zhang , Xiaoyang Qu , Kai Lu , Guokuan Li , Jiguang Wan , Jianzong Wang

Zero-shot object-goal navigation aims to find target objects in unseen environments using only egocentric observation. Recent methods leverage foundation models' comprehension and reasoning capabilities to enhance navigation performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Leyuan Fang , Zan Mao , Zijing Wang , Yinlong Yan

Robots deployed in unstructured human environments must frequently execute long-horizon missions, such as find the mug, then the chair, then the printer, under strict operational constraints. While contemporary zero-shot Object Navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xi Lin , Jiayi Li , Kangyi Wu , Jiaqiao Tang , Qingrong He , Lin Zhao

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

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

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

Mobile robots operating in human-centered environments must generate not only collision-free paths but also trajectories that follow local behavioral conventions. Conventional costmap-based navigation emphasizes geometric feasibility and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dongjie Huo , Junhui Wang , Chao Gao , Yan Qiao , Dong Zhang , Guyue Zhou

Home-assistant robots have been a long-standing research topic, and one of the biggest challenges is searching for required objects in housing environments. Previous object-goal navigation requires the robot to search for a target object…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Hongyi Chen , Ruinian Xu , Shuo Cheng , Patricio A. Vela , Danfei Xu

Navigating to instance-level targets in complex environments is a challenging problem. Many existing zero-shot methods achieve strong performance by modeling the entire environment and leveraging large language models for scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingyu Li , Zhe Liu , Wenxiao Wu , Li Zhang