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  1. GlassGuard: Verified Glass Plane Mapping for Robot Navigation

    Oct 1, 2026Hanwen Guo, Zhengzhi Lin, Yusen Xie +1Simultaneous Localization And MappingRobot Navigation

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  2. NavHarness: Adaptive Goals for Agentic Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Haoxiang Shi, Zaijing Li, Muhe Ding +3Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) · Pengcheng Laboratory

  3. DiffWAM: A Fast and Efficient Navigation World Action Model

    Sep 30, 2026Mo Zhu, Yuze Wu, Xijie Huang +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationFuture Video Prediction

    Zhejiang University · Differential Robotics

  4. ASENA: Self-evolving Agents for Embodied Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026An-Chieh Cheng, Isabella Liu, Edmund Bu +7Embodied AgentsVision-Language Navigation

    NVIDIA · University of California, San Diego

  5. Beyond the Remembered World: Predictive 4D Belief for Persistent Navigation in Evolving Worlds

    Sep 30, 2026Mingjian Gao, Zhaocheng Li, Haoyang Huang +7Object Goal NavigationSpatial Memory

    Zhejiang University · University of California, San Diego · Deeprobotics +1

  6. Seek Before You Move: Evidence Seeking for Progress Grounding in Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 29, 2026Zhimin Wang, Meiyuan Zhu, Duo Wu +8Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    Tsinghua University · Pengcheng Laboratory · South China University of Technology +3

  7. Follow the Entities: A Corpus Map for Agentic Search

    Sep 29, 2026Soyeong Jeong, Sujay Kumar Jauhar, Sung Ju Hwang +1Agentic SearchText Corpora

    KAIST · Microsoft

  8. LQR-ArUco Fusion: Robust Hierarchical Control for Navigation and Asymmetric Manipulation in Two-Wheeled Robots

    Sep 28, 2026Anupam Chatterjee, Arpita KumariControl ArchitectureOdometry

    This work was conducted as independent research and received no financial or institutional support from any organization.

  9. SOR-Nav: Search or Relocate? Context-Gated Exploration and Cross-Region Relocation for Object Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Yuan Ji, Zirui Li, Yuxin Cai +3Object Goal NavigationNavigation

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore · Schaeffler Hub for Advance REsearch(SHARE) at NTU, Singapore

  10. VCN-Bench: A Video-Contextualized Navigation Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning over Prior Visual Experience

    Sep 28, 2026Siqi Zhang, Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan +6Vision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Tongji University · The University of Hong Kong · Zhejiang University +2

  11. NavHarness: Towards Lifelong Embodied Navigation

    Sep 28, 2026Xunyi Zhao, Jian Zhou, Sihao Lin +6Object Goal NavigationNavigation

    Adelaide University · Responsible AI Research Centre, AIML · CSIRO Data61

  12. Beyond Spatial Benchmarks: From Spatial Reasoning to Navigation

    Sep 24, 2026Xun Huang, Shijia Zhao, Rongsheng Qu +5Spatial ReasoningSpatial Supervision

    Xiamen University · Zhongguancun Academy · Beihang University +2

  13. A Field-Deployable GNSS-based Navigation Stack for Outdoor Mobile Robots

    Sep 24, 2026Yiyuan Lin, Cole Regnier, Yu JiangGlobal Navigation Satellite SystemSafe Navigation

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA · School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA

  14. NaviScale: Generating Large-Scale Semantic Map Datasets for Object Navigation

    Sep 23, 2026Chuanlin Lan, Yanwei Zheng, Yuxi Jing +6Object Goal NavigationNavigation

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

  15. Skytopia: Monocular Drone Navigation with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

    Sep 22, 2026Yuhang Zhang, Rangya Zhang, Yujing Shang +6Aerial Vision-Language NavigationLatent World Models

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Autel US · XGRIDS +1

  16. Deploying Foundation Models for Embodied Navigation

    Sep 22, 2026Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, Dinesh ManochaEmbodied AgentsWireless Foundation Models

    University of Maryland, College Park

  17. Learning to Drive on Mars: Visual Multimodal Traversability Estimation for Off-World Navigation

    Sep 21, 2026Darren Chiu, Cole Wilson, Andrei Tumbar +2TraversabilityAutonomous Navigation

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. · Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. · Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.

  18. What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior

    Sep 21, 2026Débora Oliveira Makowski, Samiran Gode, Abhijeet Nayak +4Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Foundation Models

    University of Technology Nuremberg. · ETH Zürich. · Inria, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, CNRS, PSL Research University.

  19. A Topological Representation with Object-Path Graphs for Open-Vocabulary Instance Navigation

    Sep 21, 2026Linwei Zheng, Daojie Peng, Bingtao Wang +2Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  20. StenoVLA-3D: 3D-Aware Reasoning VLA for Navigation Through Gastrointestinal Stenoses

    Sep 21, 2026Tamima Tabassum, Yiming Huang, Tianchun Wu +7Robotic Soft Esophagus3D Generation

    *Equal contributor · †Corresponding author

  21. Feeling Terrain Before Crossing: World Models for Off-Road Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026E-In Son, Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang +4ProprioceptionWorld Models

    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

  22. Navigate or Relocate? Planning Among Movable Obstacles in Unknown Environments

    Sep 17, 2026Yuqing Zhang, Haoyu Zhu, Yiannis KantarosRobot PlanningMotion Planning

    Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

  23. Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

    Sep 16, 2026William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Ryan Bena +1Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA · Amazon Safe Autonomy Frontiers (SAF) Lab

  24. VCTP: Vehicle-Conditioned Terrain Planning for Off-Road Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Akshay Naik, Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas, Dustin Nottage +1Vehicle DynamicsPath Planning

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA: 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA: 2Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering · U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL, USA

  25. The Free Inference Dimension: Complexity Measure for Zero-Collision Navigation under Hypothesis Mixtures

    Sep 15, 2026Luiz Carlos Castro Guedes, Edward Hermann HaeuslerCollision-Free TrajectoriesProbabilistic Inference

    Departamento de Informática – PUC-Rio, Brazil · Seção de Engenharia de Computação – Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Brazil

  26. Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Rajneesh Anand, Mayuresh V. KothareFluid ControlsModel-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.

  27. HarnessVLN: Unifying Training-Free Embodied Navigation through an Agent Harness

    Sep 14, 2026Yang Chen, Lirong Che, Zhenyu Huang +7Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Agents

    Nanjing University · AGIBOT · Tsinghua University

  28. C2^2Nav: Compare Before You Commit for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 14, 2026Runtian Zheng, Congpeng Zhang, Ying LiuVision-Language NavigationNavigation

    North China University of Technology, Beijing, China

  29. LG-VLN: A Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation Framework with LangGraph State Orchestration

    Sep 14, 2026Jianhe Zhao, Yanhua Qiu, Zhiyu Zhang +2Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  30. Tuning ROS 2 for Energy-Efficient Navigation: Empirical Insights from Costmap 2D Configurations

    Sep 14, 2026Michel Albonico, Andreas Wortmann, Ivano MalavoltaRobot NavigationRobot Operating System

    Federal University of Technology - Paran´a (UTFPR), DAINF-FB, Francisco Beltr˜ao, Brazil · University of Southern Denmark (SDU), MMMI, Centre for Software Technology (CST), Vejle, Denmark · Institute for Control Eng. of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany +1

  31. AnchorVLN: Geometry-Anchored Vision-Language Grounding Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Navigation

    Sep 14, 2026Long Giang Vu, Chengkai Yao, Yuxin Liu +2Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    *These authors contributed equally.

  32. EvoNav-Bench: Benchmarking Lifelong Navigation in Evolving Environments

    Sep 8, 2026Xilin Wang, Guoxi Zhang, Hongming Xu +3Object Goal NavigationNavigation

    State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · 2Tsinghua University

  33. Mini-Batch Risk-Averse Deep Q-Learning: A Robot Navigation Case Study

    Sep 7, 2026Aayush Patel, Andrzej RuszczyńskiMarkov Decision ProcessesRobot Navigation

    Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers University

  34. Air-Ground Collaborative Vision-and-Language Navigation via Shared Bird's-Eye Maps

    Sep 3, 2026Shuning Zhang, Liang Li, Yunheng Wang +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationCooperative Air Combat

    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

  35. HorizonNet for visual terrain navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Bertil Grelsson, Andreas Robinson, Michael Felsberg +1Drone-View Geo-LocalizationShip Detection

    Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden · Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  36. Scaffolding Foundation Models into Physical-World Agents Pushes the Frontier of Long-Horizon Navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Zixing Lei, Gengze Zhou, Xiong-Hui Chen +7Long-Horizon AgentsEmbodied Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · AIML, Adelaide University · Qwen Team, Alibaba Inc +3

  37. CanonNav: Disentangling Navigation Behavior from Camera Geometry in Cross-Platform Visual Navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang, E-In Son +2Object Goal NavigationVisual Inertial Odometry

    Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

  38. Contrast-Free Autonomous Navigation of Untethered Endovascular Microrobots Using Single-Plane Fluoroscopy

    Aug 31, 2026Husnu Halid Alabay, Tuan-Anh Le, Ping Wang +1CathetersAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA · School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

  39. AtlasNav: Mitigating Evidence Blindness with Persistent Corpus Navigation

    Aug 25, 2026Hongyu Guo, Zhiyu Zheng, Minghao Hu +5AtlasText Corpora

  40. ASPIRE-VINS: Adaptive Spline-based Visual-inertial Navigation System With Robust 3D Measurement Residuals

    Aug 13, 2026Kwangyik Jung, Eungchang Mason Lee, Taekjun Oh +1Visual-Inertial SystemsInertial Measurement Units

  41. DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 12, 2026Yan Deng, Fei XuAerial Vision-Language NavigationPerception Pipeline

    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

  42. From Semantic Grounding to Decision Optimization: A Unified Framework for Long-Horizon UAV Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 10, 2026Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di HuangAerial Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  43. Unified Planning-Learning Framework for Robust UUV Navigation Under Partial Observability

    Aug 5, 2026Md Ether Deowan, Eleni KelasidiAutonomous Underwater VehiclesAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.

  44. Deliberate Before You Fly: Vision-Guided Spatial Deliberation for UAV See-and-Reach Navigation

    Aug 5, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Bohang Liu +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationWaypoints

    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

  45. From Routes to Steps: Separating Semantic Progress from Local Execution in Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Aug 4, 2026Xiangyun Huang, Xiangchen Wang, Runfeng Lin +5Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    1Beihang University · 2Southern University of Science and Technology · 3Central South University +2

  46. The Field Knows: Cross-Dimensional Geometry from Navigation to Black Holes

    Aug 3, 2026Chenghao XuGeometric MetricsGeneral Relativity

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and National Engineering Research Center of Robot Visual Perception and Control Technology, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

  47. TANGO-VIO: Triangulation-Aware Navigation with Guaranteed Feature-Observability for Visual-Inertial Odometry

    Aug 3, 2026Abdülbaki Şanlan, Ege C. Altunkaya, Hasan T. Bağci +2Visual Inertial OdometryState Estimation

    Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Istanbul Technical University, 34467 Istanbul, Türkiye

  48. FreqNav: Stage-Wise Frequency Routing for Object-Oriented Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Aug 2, 2026Yin Tang, Jiawei Ma, Jiahao Li +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    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

  49. Room-Mediated Co-occurrence for Zero-Shot Object-Centric Semantic Navigation via Frontier Scoring

    Jul 28, 2026Adam Scicluna, Gavin Paul, Alen AlempijevicVision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Robotics Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia

  50. IMPRINT: Image-Conditioned Query Enrichment for Long-Tail Object Goal Navigation

    Jul 27, 2026Jelin Raphael Akkara, Filippo Ziliotto, Luciano Serafini +2Vision-Language NavigationSemantic Mapping

    University of Padova, Italy. · Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento, Italy.

  51. Learning Adaptive Multi-Task Guidance, Navigation, and Control via Hypernetworks

    Jul 27, 2026Ricard Marsal I Castan, Aman Arora, Antoine Richard +3QuadrotorRobust Trajectory

    University of Luxembourg · 2Georgia Institute of Technology

  52. FloAff-Kitchen: Bridging Navigation and Manipulation via Canonical and Progressive Floor Affordance Learning

    Jul 27, 2026Ping Zhong, Manling Teng, Tao Wu +3AffordancesFloor Plan Generation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University

  53. Development of Vision-Language Model-based GNSS Spoofing Detection for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation

    Jul 27, 2026Mohammed Aldeen, Muhammad Sami Irfan, Sagar Dasgupta +3Global Navigation Satellite SystemRtk-Gnss

    School of Computing, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA · Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA · Glenn Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

  54. MemVLN: Episodic and Procedural Memory for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 26, 2026Yuqi Liu, Shengju Qian, Tianyuan Qu +5Vision-Language NavigationDiffusion-Based Vision-Language-Actions

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2LIGHTSPEED · 3The University of Hong Kong +1

  55. Towards Dual-Brain Minimal Sufficient Representation for Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 25, 2026Yihao Wu, Chenyi Xu, Liqi Yan +6Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    1Hangzhou Dianzi University · University of Zurich · University of Exeter

  56. Socially Consistent Multi-Robot Navigation Using Decoupled Planning and Trajectory Coordination

    Jul 22, 2026Matthew M. Sato, Kincho H. LawMulti-Robot Motion PlanningRobot Planning

    Engineering Informatics Group Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305

  57. SOPD-SocialNav: Selective On-Policy Distillation for Vision-Language Social Navigation

    Jul 22, 2026Xinyu Zhang, Zishuo Wang, Ling XiaoVision-Language NavigationRobot Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  58. Milo, a Fully Autonomous Indoor/Outdoor Robotic Guide Dog

    Jul 21, 2026Florian Golemo, Joanna Wolski, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz +1Autonomous NavigationObstacle Avoidance

    Mila - Quebec AI Institute Montreal, Canada · Mila - Quebec AI Institute, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada

  59. Beyond Transformers: Linear Attention Policy for Open-Vocabulary Object Goal Navigation

    Jul 21, 2026Jiahong Zhang, Yifan Lin, Yandong Zhang +6Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100045, China · State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China, Beijing 100024, China · Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China +2

  60. Intelligent Multi-UAV Navigation in ITNTNs: A Hierarchical LLM Approach

    Jul 21, 2026Zijiang Yan, Hao Zhou, Wael Jaafar +4Multi-UavUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

    York University, Toronto, ON, Canada · Samsung Research America, Toronto, ON, Canada · ´ETS, University of Quebec, Montr´eal, QC, Canada +1