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AirGroundVLN: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Goal-Oriented Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation
Oct 7, 2026Zhenxuan Zeng, Qingle Wu, Wei Suo +4Vision-Language Navigation Aerial VLN
School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.
Speaking the Navigator's Language: Trajectory-Grounded Instruction Translation for Frozen Aerial VLN Agents
Oct 7, 2026Xi Chen, Zhe Liu, Xiaogang Xu +8Aerial VLN Vision-Language Navigation
Zhejiang University · Zhejiang Lab
WareFly-VLA: A Vision-Language-Action Framework for UAV Navigation and Human Tracking in Smart Warehouses
Oct 6, 2026Thinh D. Le, Son T. Nguyen, Duong Q. Nguyen +3Aerial Robotics UAV Navigation
Center for AI Research, VinUniversity, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam · VinRobotics, Hanoi, Vietnam
LightVLN: Efficient Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation with Compact Memory and History-Guided Local Aggregation
Oct 4, 2026Yiming Zhao, Tianshun Li, Jingle He +2Memory-Augmented VLMs Vision-Language Models
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
ForeFly: A Dual-Horizon World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Sep 27, 2026Kunhui Wang, Xintong Zhang, Junyu Gao +1World Models for Robotics UAV Navigation
State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Division of Natural and Applied Sciences, Duke Kunshan University, Suzhou, China +1
VLM-MPPI: Grounding Natural Language in Behaviorally Diverse Trajectories for Aerial Navigation
Sep 16, 2026Hanbing Zhang, Fangguo Zhao, Zerui Li +3UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University
UDAV: Uncertainty-Driven Adaptive VLM Waypoint Planner
Sep 14, 2026Ghazal Farhani, Shabnam ShabaniUncertainty Estimation for VLA Models Trajectory Generation
The authors are with the Automotive and Surface Transportation Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, London, Ontario, Canada.
AirAnchor: Bridging Local and Global Spatial Information for Zero-Shot Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation
Sep 8, 2026Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu +4Zero-Shot Learning UAV Navigation
National Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
Dual-Layer Semantic-Spatial Belief Mapping for Aerial Object Goal Navigation
Sep 8, 2026Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun +3UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA
Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation via Shared Bird's-Eye Maps
Sep 3, 2026Shuning Zhang, Liang Li, Yunheng Wang +3Robot Navigation UAV Navigation
Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, Systems Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China · School of Communications and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
AirForesight: Current-to-Future Spatial Map Imagination with Cross-Space Planning Consistency for UAV-VLN
Aug 13, 2026Yutong Liu, Xiaojie Li, Mingzhu Xu +1Visual Spatial Reasoning UAV Navigation
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen Loop Area Institute Shenzhen, China · Shandong University Jinan, China
DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Aug 12, 2026Yan Deng, Fei XuMemory-Augmented VLMs Diffusion-Based Planning
School of Electronic Information Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an, China
From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation
Aug 10, 2026Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di HuangUAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
RecoverFly: A Failure-Aware Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Framework for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Aug 10, 2026Boxiong Wang, Hui Kang, Geng Sun +3UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
1Jilin University · 4Zhongguancun Academy · 2Tsinghua University +1
Deliberate Before You Fly: Vision-Guided Spatial Deliberation for UAV See-and-Reach Navigation
Aug 5, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Bohang Liu +4UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University · Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shandong University +1
CoNav-UAV: Cooperative Dual-Altitude Aerial Navigation via Stackelberg Learning
Aug 3, 2026Junru Song, Wenhao Zhang, Yang Yang +7UAV Navigation Stackelberg Games
1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Intelligent Game and Decision Laboratory · 3Renmin University of China +1
AeroDPO: Unleashing Lightweight UAV Navigation with High-Fidelity Perception and Automated Preference Optimization
Aug 2, 2026Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua WanCollision Avoidance Direct Preference Optimization
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · 2Shenzhen Institute for Advanced Study, UESTC, Shenzhen, China
FreqNav: Stage-Wise Frequency Routing for Object-Oriented Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Aug 2, 2026Yin Tang, Jiawei Ma, Jiahao Li +4Efficient VLM Inference UAV Navigation
Big Data Institute, Central South University · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University +1
No Training, Better Flights: Test-Time Scaled VLMs for UAV Navigation
Jul 21, 2026Feinan Cheng, Dongliang Xu, Wenli Nong +4Vision-Language Models UAV Navigation
Shandong University Weihai, China · China University of Petroleum (East China) Qingdao, China · MBZUAI Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
AeroAct: Action-Centered World-Action Models for Language-Conditioned Quadrotor Flight
Jul 16, 2026Xinhong Zhang, Qiyuan Zhu, Yubo Huang +8Robotic Control Aerial Robotics
School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology · School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology · Independent researcher
Parse, Search, and Confirmation: Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Structured Spatial Memory
Jul 13, 2026Yu Qi, Hongyu Li, Shaofei Huang +6Memory-Augmented VLMs UAV Navigation
School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University · University of Macau +2
FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation
Jul 9, 2026Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu +4Vision-Language Models UAV Navigation
Pengcheng Laboratory · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · Peking University
Exp2VLA: Enabling Vision-Language-Action for Drone Navigation from Expert Demonstrations
Jul 3, 2026Van Huyen Dang, Kabilesh Rajendran, Erdi Sayar +1UAV Navigation Vision-Language-Action Models
Automatic Control Group Paderborn University Paderborn, Germany
DynFly: Dynamic-Aware Continuous Trajectory Generation for UAV Vision-Language Navigation in Urban Environments
Jun 30, 2026Wen Jiang, Hanfang Liang, Li Wang +9UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China · Chongqing Innovation Center, Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing 401120, China +5
CLOSER-VLN: Closed-Loop Self-Verified Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation
Jun 24, 2026Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma +3UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Foshan Graduate School of Innovation, Northeastern University, Foshan 528311, China · College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China +3
See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View
Jun 18, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen +5UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China · Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia · School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China +3
Think Like a Pilot: Fine-Grained Long-Horizon UAV Navigation
Jun 5, 2026Xiangyi Zheng, Xiangyu Wang, Qinan Liao +6UAV Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Colab, Beihang University · National University of Singapore · Meituan
WorldFly: A World-Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation
Jun 4, 2026Shengtao Zheng, Kai Li, Weichen Zhang +5World Models for Robotics Robot Navigation
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School · BNRist, Tsinghua University
AgenticDiffusion: Multi-View Reasoning with View-Conditioned Diffusion Planning for Vision-Based UAV Navigation
Jun 2, 2026Faryal Batool, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Fawad Mehboob +2Aerial Robotics Trajectory Generation
Towards Precise Intent-Aligned VLA Aerial Navigation via Expert-Guided GRPO
Jun 1, 2026Tianyang Chen, Wenjun Li, Xin zhou +2UAV Navigation Group Relative Policy Optimization
1Zhejiang University · 2Differential Robotics

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AirGroundVLN: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Goal-Oriented Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation

Zhenxuan Zeng, Qingle Wu, Wei Suo, Maojia Wu+3

School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.

Vision-Language Navigation Aerial VLN

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Goal-oriented Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to locate and reach targets described in natural language without prescribed routes. Air--ground collaboration is valuable for tasks requiring both wide-area search and fine-grained localization. However, systematic study of goal-oriented air--ground collaborative VLN remains limited by the lack of large-scale, diverse benchmarks and two core challenges: 1) substantial differences between aerial and ground views, together with useful observations becoming unavailable as navigation proceeds, make it difficult to maintain spatially consistent context across platforms and over time; and 2) asymmetric spatial observability makes ground perception locally detailed but spatially limited and aerial perception broad but locally coarse, limiting the reliability of single-platform planning. To address these limitations, we introduce AirGroundVLN, a benchmark containing 10,281 navigation episodes and 955 target instances across 19 Unreal Engine environments, with seen/unseen splits and an aerial-visibility protocol for systematic evaluation. Alongside the benchmark, we propose AG-CoNAV, a trainable reference framework comprising two key components: Spatiotemporally Anchored Collaborative Memory (SACM) and Aerial-Guided Regional-to-Local Planning (AGRLP). SACM maintains and retrieves spatially consistent historical context across aerial and ground observations. Meanwhile, AGRLP combines regional aerial guidance with fine-grained ground navigation. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of AG-CoNAV and establish AirGroundVLN as a comprehensive benchmark for future exploration.

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