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Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) poses significant challenges for agents to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex 3D environments. While recent progress has been driven by large-scale pre-training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Tianyi Ma , Yue Zhang , Zehao Wang , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Although large language models (LLMs) are introduced into vision-and-language navigation (VLN) to improve instruction comprehension and generalization, existing LLM- based VLN lacks the ability to selectively recall and use relevant priori…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haozhou Li , Xiangyu Dong , Huiyan Jiang , Yaoming Zhou , Xiaoguang Ma

Current Visual-Language Navigation (VLN) methodologies face a trade-off between semantic understanding and control precision. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer superior reasoning, deploying them as low-level controllers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Zhenxing Xu , Brikit Lu , Weidong Bao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Junsong Zhang , Hui Yan , Wenhao Lu , Ji Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising direction for end-to-end autonomous driving (AD) by jointly modeling visual observations, driving context, and language-based reasoning. However, existing VLM-based systems face a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ximeng Tao , Pardis Taghavi , Dimitar Filev , Reza Langari , Gaurav Pandey

The emerging vision-and-language navigation (VLN) problem aims at learning to navigate an agent to the target location in unseen photo-realistic environments according to the given language instruction. The main challenges of VLN arise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Weixia Zhang , Chao Ma , Qi Wu , Xiaokang Yang

Visual target navigation is a critical capability for autonomous robots operating in unknown environments, particularly in human-robot interaction scenarios. While classical and learning-based methods have shown promise, most existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Bangguo Yu , Qihao Yuan , Kailai Li , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Zero-shot object navigation requires agents to locate unseen target objects in unfamiliar environments without prior maps or task-specific training which remains a significant challenge. Although recent advancements in vision-language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Feng Wu , Wei Zuo , Wenliang Yang , Jun Xiao , Yang Liu , Xinhua Zeng

In this work, we propose a modular approach for the Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) task by decomposing the problem into four sub-modules that use state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Navid Rajabi , Jana Kosecka

Recent advancements in open-source Visual Language Models (VLMs) such as LLaVA, Qwen-VL, and Llama have catalyzed extensive research on their integration with diverse systems. The internet-scale general knowledge encapsulated within these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Cristian Gariboldi , Hayato Tokida , Ken Kinjo , Yuki Asada , Alexander Carballo

Conventional approaches to vision-and-language navigation (VLN) are trained end-to-end but struggle to perform well in freely traversable environments. Inspired by the robotics community, we propose a modular approach to VLN using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Kevin Chen , Junshen K. Chen , Jo Chuang , Marynel Vázquez , Silvio Savarese

Recent advances in large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have provided rich semantic understanding that empowers drones to search for open-set objects via natural language instructions. However, prior systems struggle to integrate VLMs into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xuecheng Chen , Zongzhuo Liu , Jianfa Ma , Bang Du , Tiantian Zhang , Xueqian Wang , Boyu Zhou

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) has recently benefited from Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), enabling zero-shot navigation. While recent exploration-based zero-shot methods have shown promising results by leveraging global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jiwen Zhang , Xiangyu Shi , Siyuan Wang , Zerui Li , Zhongyu Wei , Qi Wu

Trained with an unprecedented scale of data, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 exhibit the emergence of significant reasoning abilities from model scaling. Such a trend underscored the potential of training LLMs with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Gengze Zhou , Yicong Hong , Qi Wu

Aerial vision-and-language navigation (VLN), requiring drones to interpret natural language instructions and navigate complex urban environments, emerges as a critical embodied AI challenge that bridges human-robot interaction, 3D spatial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Shiquan Yu , Ruiying Peng , Baining Zhao , Qian Zhang , Jinqiang Cui , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

A navigable agent needs to understand both high-level semantic instructions and precise spatial perceptions. Building navigation agents centered on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrates a promising solution due to their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zerui Li , Hongpei Zheng , Fangguo Zhao , Aidan Chan , Jian Zhou , Sihao Lin , Shijie Li , Qi Wu

Current vision-language navigation methods face substantial bottlenecks regarding heterogeneous robot compatibility, real-time performance, and navigation safety. Furthermore, they struggle to support open-vocabulary semantic generalization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Mingao Tan , Yiyang Li , Shanze Wang , Xinming Zhang , Wei Zhang

Object-goal navigation has traditionally been limited to ground robots with closed-set object vocabularies. Existing multi-agent approaches depend on precomputed probabilistic graphs tied to fixed category sets, precluding generalization to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 MoniJesu James , Amir Atef Habel , Aleksey Fedoseev , Dzmitry Tsetserokou

Autonomous navigation under natural language instructions represents a crucial step toward embodied intelligence, enabling complex task execution in environments ranging from industrial facilities to domestic spaces. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hongyu Song , Rishabh Dev Yadav , Cheng Guo , Wei Pan

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to empower robots with the ability to perform long-horizon navigation in unfamiliar environments based on complex linguistic instructions. Its success critically hinges on establishing an efficient…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ling Luo , Qianqian Bai

As embodied AI transitions to real-world deployment, the success of the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task tends to evolve from mere reachability to social compliance. However, current agents suffer from a "goal-driven trap",…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiawen Wen , Penglei Sun , Wenjie Zhang , Suixuan Qiu , Weisheng Xu , Xiaofei Yang , Xiaowen Chu
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