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  1. SparseNav: Instruction-conditioned Sparse Semantic Perception for Training-Free Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 22, 2026Quanhua Chen, Juhan Kang, Runfeng Lin +5Vision-Language NavigationSemantic Mapping

  2. Deploying Foundation Models for Embodied Navigation

    Sep 22, 2026Vishnu Sashank Dorbala, Dinesh ManochaEmbodied NavigationEmbodied Agents

  3. 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 Navigation

  4. Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering

    Sep 21, 2026Haruto Nagahisa, Kohei Matsumoto, Yuki Hyodo +1Diffusion PoliciesSocial Robot Navigation

  5. Partial-Scan-and-Move Source Seeking for Mobile Robots

    Sep 20, 2026Bo Wang, Ishvar SitaldinSocial Robot Navigation

  6. RiverVLN: Phase-Grounded Temporal Vision--Language Navigation for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

    Sep 20, 2026Jieling Wu, Yuehao Huang, Jiajun Lv +3Vision-Language NavigationAutonomous Maritime Navigation

  7. OmniEcho: Audio-Visual Spatial Understanding for Omni-Modal Embodied Agents

    Sep 20, 2026Ruixun Liu, Yuxuan Wang, Jiacheng Xie +10Spatial AudioEmbodied Navigation

  8. Spatial-Semantic Uncertainty in VLM-Based Target Search: Balancing Exploration and Identification

    Sep 17, 2026Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jonathan Diller, Vijay Kumar +1Vision-Language NavigationEfficient Exploration

  9. Navi-Agent: Unlocalized Monocular Navigation Agent

    Sep 17, 2026Wenyuan Xie, Mengyang Hong, Yongzhong Wang +9Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  10. GPT-6-Astra in a Navigation Workflow: Behavioral Analysis in Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments

    Sep 17, 2026Guangzhao Dai, Qi Wu, Bin ZhuVision-Language NavigationPerception-Action Loop

  11. Universal Navigation Interface: Robot-Free Data for Wheeled Robot Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Sarvesh Prajapati, Ananya Trivedi, Lorena Maria Genua +3Social Robot NavigationScalable Robot Data Synthesis

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

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

  13. TADreamer: Zero-Shot Language-Guided 3D Navigation for Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Robots via Video Imagination

    Sep 17, 2026Xiangyu Li, Tiancheng Lai, Xijie Huang +7Object Goal NavigationDream

  14. Tele-Traversability: Rethinking Traversability for Teleoperated Ground Robots in Terrain Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Lewei Feng, Qi Chen, Wenshuo Wang +6TraversabilityTeleoperation

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

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

  16. Learning Safe Humanoid Navigation from Reduced Order Models

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

  17. AdaGeoVLN: Selective Geometry Across Representation Depth and Navigation Time for Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Quan-Dung Pham, Anh Dao, Danh Vinh Le +7Vision-Language NavigationGeometry-Aware

  18. TRACER: Adaptive Multi-Robot Social Navigation via Joint Human-Response Prediction and Interaction-Aware Replanning

    Sep 16, 2026Lan Hu, Minghui Liwang, Wenbo Zhu +4Social Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

  19. GroundingVLN: Reasoning and Acting with Grounding for Vision-Language Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Kailing Li, Yu Han, Tianwen Qian +4Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  20. WAVE-Go: World-Model Navigation with Adaptive Execution for Wheel-Legged Robots

    Sep 16, 2026Mingyi Li, Ji Li, Zhihao Ouyang +2Object Goal NavigationLegged Robots

  21. PRISM: Predictive Representation of Interaction Style and Motion for Social Robot Navigation

    Sep 16, 2026Bo-Han Chen, Hiromu Taketsugu, Norimichi UkitaSocial Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

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

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

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

    Sep 15, 2026Luiz Carlos Castro Guedes, Edward Hermann HaeuslerCollision-Free TrajectoriesModel-Free Reinforcement Learning

  24. ENCP: Episode-Normalized Conformal Prediction for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Vicky Feliren, A. Taufiq Asyhari, Muhamad Risqi U. SaputraVision-Language NavigationConformal Prediction

  25. Visual Cue Guided Video Planning for Generalizable Robot Navigation

    Sep 15, 2026Hojin Lee, Sizhe Lester Li, Maximilian Hilger +4Social Robot NavigationInverse Dynamics

  26. EgoPathBench: Evaluating Zero-Shot Egocentric Waypoint Decision-Making in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Yang Zhao, Zhuo Chen, Xubo YangVision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  27. Autonomous Droplet Navigation via Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Rajneesh Anand, Mayuresh V. KothareFluidic TransportNavigation

  28. AnchorGUI: Asymmetric Memory for Dual-Scale Learning in GUI Navigation

    Sep 14, 2026Shengjie Jin, Zelong Sun, Hengbo Xu +2Graphical User InterfaceVision-Language Navigation

  29. Evaluation Metrics for Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Lindsay Spoor, Aske Plaat, Thomas MoerlandSafety EvaluationJoint Reinforcement Learning

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

    Sep 14, 2026Yang Chen, Lirong Che, Zhenyu Huang +7Embodied NavigationEmbodied Agents

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

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

  32. 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

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

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

  34. Assisted Spatial Cognition Through Vision-Language Models

    Sep 14, 2026H. Riaz, J. B. Fernandez, I. Mills +3Vision-Language NavigationAccessibility

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

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

  36. Language-Guided Terrain-Adaptive Neural MPC for Autonomous Traversal of Articulated Tracked Robots

    Sep 11, 2026Zhenfeng Gan, Yanbo Chen, Lirong Che +3Autonomous NavigationRobot Systems

  37. SwarmNxt: Open-source Software-Hardware Platform for Fast and Agile Aerial Swarms

    Sep 11, 2026Charbel Toumieh, Niel Mistry, Benjamin Jarvis +4Unmanned Aerial Vehicle SwarmsDrone

  38. The Menu Is an Execution Prior: State-Path Tool Menus for Online Agents

    Sep 10, 2026Bo Yan, Weikai Lin, Song WangMulti-Turn Tool-Use AgentArtificial Intelligence Agents

  39. Rethinking Learned Occupancy in Autonomous Active Mapping with Observation-Gated Filtering

    Sep 8, 2026Jiahui Zhang, Bonian Han, Gongbo Liang +13D Semantic Occupancy PredictionAutonomous Navigation

  40. Model Predictive Control of Tensegrity Robots via Contact-Aware Graph Neural Dynamics Model

    Sep 8, 2026Nelson Chen, Patrick Meng, Charles Tang +5Model Predictive ControlRobot Systems

  41. Estimating Semantic Ambiguity via Gaussian Context Distributions for VLM-Driven Traversability Analysis

    Sep 8, 2026Ramona Häuselmann, Mario A. V. Saucedo, Christoforos Kanellakis +1TraversabilityAutonomous Navigation

  42. RepoNav: From Snippet Retrieval to File-Centered Repository Navigation for Code Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Hongzheng Chai, Jiakun Li, Hongyue Yu +1Repository-Level Code UnderstandingRetrieval Task

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

    Sep 8, 2026Xilin Wang, Guoxi Zhang, Hongming Xu +3EvolvingNavigation

  44. OmniNav: Robust Long-Horizon Target Navigation in Dynamic Environments

    Sep 8, 2026Yujie Tang, Meiling Wang, Jinhao Jiang +4Object Goal NavigationLong-Horizon Planning

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

    Sep 7, 2026Aayush Patel, Andrzej RuszczyńskiMarkov Decision ProcessesSocial Robot Navigation

  46. Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5Scalable Robot LearningSocial Robot Navigation

  47. Revisiting Topological Graphs for Macro Action based Closed-loop Reinforcement Learning of Vision Language Navigation in Continuous Environment

    Sep 3, 2026Shuhao Ye, Sitong Mao, Yuxiang Cui +7Vision-Language NavigationDeep Reinforcement Learning

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

    Sep 3, 2026Shuning Zhang, Liang Li, Yunheng Wang +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationBird'S-Eye View

  49. Scalable Rao-Blackwellized Online Planning for High-Dimensional POMDPs

    Sep 1, 2026Jiho Lee, Nisar Ahmed, Kyle Hollins Wray +1Robot PlanningPartially Observable Markov Decision Process

  50. VerNav: Verifier-First Low-Latency Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Sep 1, 2026Zhixin Wang, Chengzheyi Yao, Leyuan Liu +2Vision-Language NavigationReinforcement Fine-Tuning

  51. CANVAS: Consistency-Aware Navigation via Visual Adaptive Sampling for Long-Context Text-to-SVG Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Yichen Wu, Haoxuan Qu, Yihang Lou +2Scalable Vector GraphicSketches

  52. HorizonNet for visual terrain navigation

    Aug 31, 2026Bertil Grelsson, Andreas Robinson, Michael Felsberg +1Autonomous Maritime NavigationHorizon

  53. 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

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

    Aug 31, 2026Dong-Wook Kim, Ji-Hoon Hwang, E-In Son +2NavigationImitation Learning

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

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

  56. SOLO: Stable Omni-terrain Long-Horizon Perceptive Humanoid Locomotion

    Aug 27, 2026Pihai Sun, Gang Han, Jingkai Sun +17Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesTerrain

  57. Competing at Every Price Point with Agentic Evolution over a Menu of LLMs

    Aug 17, 2026Andrew BorthwickLlm-Based AgentSelf-Evolving Agents

  58. OccPlanner: Goal-Aware Occupancy-Conditioned Diffusion Planner for PixelGoal Navigation

    Aug 14, 2026Binling Huang, Nianjin Ye, Xi Yang +6Diffusion Planning3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

  59. Towards Socially Compliant Navigation in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Proxemics-Based Reward Modeling

    Aug 13, 2026Takieddine Soualhi, Jacques Saraydaryan, Laetitia MatignonSocial Robot NavigationNavigation

  60. HumanoidVLN: A Physics-Grounded Simulator and Benchmark for Vision-Language Navigation Across Diverse Humanoid Embodiments

    Aug 13, 2026Quan-Dung Pham, Anh Dao, The-Anh Nguyen +8Vision-Language NavigationPerceptive Locomotion Policies