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  1. ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model

    Jul 11, 2026Ruiyan Gong, Yingnan Guo, Junjun Hu +43Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  2. Navigating the Crowd: Non-linear MPC with Social Forces Dynamics for Human-Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Stefano Trepella, Andrea Ostuni, Mauro Martini +5Social Robot NavigationModel Predictive Control

  3. PIER-Flow: Physics-Informed Efficient Rectified Flow for Real-Time Mobile Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Shibo Li, Zhongcheng Wang, Jiahe Cao +2Social Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  4. Effects of Robotic Touch on Older Users During Walking Guidance by a Humanoid Robot

    Jul 10, 2026Leonie Leven, Marko Ackermann, Christian Werner +4AgeSurface Electromyography

  5. Validating Virtual Reality for Studying Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction in Socially Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid AlamiHuman-Robot InteractionVirtual Reality

  6. Empirical Pedestrian Safety Assessment in a Mobile Robot Using a Predictive Social Force Model

    Jul 10, 2026Alireza Jafari, Yun-Hao Tsai, Yen-Chen LiuPedestrianSocial Robot Navigation

  7. Early to Share, Late to Save: Synchronisation-Driven Communication Gating in Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative VLN

    Jul 9, 2026Arav Gupta, Nivedan Yakolli, Avinash GautamVision-Language NavigationFeature Alignment

  8. FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  9. Input-Constrained Spatiotemporal Tubes for Safe Navigation of Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems in Dynamic Environments

    Jul 9, 2026Siddhartha Upadhyay, Ratnangshu Das, Pushpak JagtapActuatorObstacle Avoidance

  10. A Comprehensive Survey and Systematic Real-World Evaluation of Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Liuyi Wang, Kai Sheng, Zongtao He +8Vision-Language NavigationVisual Perception

  11. Social-spatial dependencies for learning visual navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Patrick Govoni, Pawel RomanczukSocial DynamicsNavigation

  12. HumAIN: Human-Aware Implicit Social Robot Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Daeun Song, Nhat Le, Jeffrey Chen +7Social Robot NavigationRobot Systems

  13. Manual, Joystick, or Haptic Control? An In Vitro Comparison of Navigation Strategies for Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures

    Jul 8, 2026Benjamin Jackson, Nikola Fischer, Harry Robershaw +16Autonomous Endovascular NavigationHaptic Feedback

  14. GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

    Jul 8, 2026Peter Bohm, Saimunur Rahman, Abdelwahed Khamis +3Vision-Language NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  15. UniLM-Nav: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Last-Mile Navigation

    Jul 7, 2026Zhuofan Zhang, Tianxu Wang, Guoxi Zhang +6MenuReal-World Manipulation Tasks

  16. Towards Real-World Applications with an Autonomous Powered Wheelchair

    Jul 7, 2026Simone Arreghini, Alessandro Giusti, Alex Bordini +3Autonomous Powered WheelchairAutonomous Navigation

  17. RoboVAST: Automated Scenario-Based Validation of Robots at Scale

    Jul 7, 2026Frederik Pasch, Samuel Wiest, Argentina Ortega +1Scenario GenerationRobocasa

  18. Image2Sim: Scaling Embodied Navigation via Generative Neural Simulator

    Jul 7, 2026Zihan Wang, Seungjun Lee, Yinghao Xu +1Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferEmbodied Navigation

  19. Inject or Navigate? Token-Efficient Retrieval for LLM Analysis of Transactional Legal Documents

    Jul 7, 2026Mahmoud Hany, Mourad ElSheraey, Mahmoud Said +1Legal DomainText Corpora

  20. Socially-Aware Autonomous Doorway Traversal and Payload Delivery for Emergency Assistance

    Jul 6, 2026Andrew Snowdy, Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati +2Social Robot NavigationEmergency Evacuations

  21. Green for Go, Red for No: Visual Grounding via Semantic Segmentation for VLA Navigation Policies

    Jul 6, 2026Adrian Szvoren, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Nilufer TuptukVision-Language NavigationExplicit Visual Grounding

  22. LH-AVLN: A Benchmark for Long-Horizon Audio-Visual-Language Navigation

    Jul 4, 2026Rufeng Chen, Yue Chang, Zili Shao +4Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Navigation

  23. From Region Arrival to Instance-Level Grounding in Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 4, 2026Xiangyu Shi, Ruoxi Yang, Wei Tao +3Vision-Language NavigationContextual Grounding

  24. Lost in Time? Continuous Symmetry and Identifiability in Aided Inertial Navigation with Unknown Measurement Delays

    Jul 4, 2026Jonathan Kelly, Phone Thiha Kyaw, Mattew GiamouInertial Navigation SystemsState Estimation

  25. Closed-loop vs. Open-loop Kalman Filter Architectures in Airborne Aided Inertial Navigation

    Jul 3, 2026Antonia Hager, Torleiv H. BryneInertial Navigation SystemsExtended Kalman Filter

  26. GDPR-Aware Trajectory Sharing for ISAC-Assisted Robot Navigation: A Case Study on FID-Constrained Collision Prediction

    Jul 3, 2026Zexin Fang, Bin Han, Donglin Wang +2Collision PredictionPrivacy-Utility Trade-Offs

  27. CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen +5NavigationVelocity Field

  28. SPLC: Social Preference Learning for Crowd Robot Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Zixuan Chen, Hao Fu, Haiwen Hu +1Social Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Collaboration

  29. Path-level Hindsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim, Honglak LeeVision-Language NavigationHindsight

  30. SE(2) Navigation Mesh

    Jul 1, 2026Shuyang Shi, Kaixian Qu, Changan Chen +3TraversabilityNavigation

  31. Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Valentino Sacco, Luca Scofano, Indro Spinelli +1Social Robot NavigationHuman-Robot Interaction

  32. DART-VLN: Test-Time Memory Decay and Anti-Loop Regularization for Discrete Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Shaoheng Zhang, Zhichen Li, Jie MeiVision-Language NavigationFrozen Vision-Language Models

  33. ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics

    Jun 30, 2026Runyu Lu, Yubo Wu, Ethan Kou +11Human-To-Robot TransferRobotics

  34. Iterated Invariant EKF for 3D Landmark-Aided Inertial Navigation

    Jun 30, 2026Hilton Marques Souza Santana, João Carlos Virgolino Soares, Marco Antonio MeggiolaroInertial Navigation SystemsExtended Kalman Filter

  35. LeCropFollow: Latent Space Planning for Navigation in Unstructured Crop Fields

    Jun 30, 2026Felipe Tommaselli, Francisco Affonso, Arthur Pompeu +4Agricultural RobotsAgricultural Landscapes

  36. MVP-Nav: Multi-layer Value Map Planner Navigator

    Jun 30, 2026Wenyuan Xie, Shaokai Wu, Yijin Zhou +7Vision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

  37. DynFly: Dynamic-Aware Continuous Trajectory Generation for UAV Vision-Language Navigation in Urban Environments

    Jun 30, 2026Wen Jiang, Hanfang Liang, Li Wang +9Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  38. Communication-Aware Robot Execution for Cloud Inference under Spatially Heterogeneous Connectivity

    Jun 30, 2026Fengkai Liu, Yuichi Ohsita, Masayuki Murata +1Social Robot NavigationRobot Systems

  39. Information-Aided DVL Calibration

    Jun 30, 2026Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik KleinInertial Navigation SystemsAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

  40. Hierarchical 3D Scene Graph Construction and Belief-based Planning for Semantic Navigation

    Jun 30, 2026Bing Wu, Zuyao Chen, Changwen ChenEmbodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  41. MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV

    Jun 29, 2026Louis Petit, Alexis Lussier DesbiensUnmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesCoverage Path Planning

  42. HUMEMBR: Learning Human Routines for Predictive Embodied Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Samira Huber, Klaas Pelzer, Duc M. Nguyen +2Embodied NavigationEmbodied Agents

  43. FutureNav: Unified World-Action Modeling for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Lingfeng Zhang, Zeying Gong, Xiaoshuai Hao +7Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  44. RoamFlow: Reinforcement-Aligned One-Step Action MeanFlow Policy for Image-Goal Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Zixuan Zhang, Yuqi Chen, Junjie Gao +4Object Goal NavigationNavigation

  45. Flying to Image-Specified Objects: 3D Quadrotor Navigation via Cross-Graph Memory and Viewpoint Planning

    Jun 29, 2026Junjie Gao, Yuqi Chen, Yongzhou Pan +3Quadrotor FlightVision-Language Navigation

  46. Pondering the Way: Spatial-perceiving World Action Model for Embodied Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Hong Chen, Daqi Liu, Zehan Zhang +10Efficient World-Action ModelEmbodied Navigation

  47. Vision-Language Procedural Reasoning for Context-Aware Reward Modeling of Robotic Endovascular Guidewire Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Wentong Tian, Jiyuan Zhao, Tianliang Yao +4Autonomous Endovascular NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  48. AUSLUN: A Fixed-Hover UAV--USV System for GNSS-Denied Maritime Search and Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Siyuan Yang, Zikai Jia, Hailiang Kuang +4Global Navigation Satellite SystemNavigation

  49. ViTL: Temporal Logic-Guided Zero-Shot Natural Language Navigation via Vision-Language Models

    Jun 29, 2026Kaier Liang, Hengde Dai, Cristian-Ioan VasileVision-Language NavigationLinear Temporal Logics

  50. Analyzing Uncertainty in the Spatial Representation of the Kinematic Bicycle Model

    Jun 28, 2026Shafayat Abrar, M. Zaeem Baig, Shahir Ul Islam Anzal +1OdometryVehicle Dynamics

  51. CORE Planner: Contextual-memory Oriented Reinforcement-learning in Unknown Environments for Robot Navigation

    Jun 28, 2026Jintao Kong, Zhihao Zhang, Weihuang Chen +4Social Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  52. LNN-Fly: Continuous-Time UAV Navigation for Robust Obstacle Avoidance under Timing Mismatch

    Jun 27, 2026Yulin Huang, Shaojie Chen, Di Feng +3Autonomous Drone NavigationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectories

  53. Vision-Language Models for Deployable Social Robot Navigation: Bridging Semantic Reasoning and Low-Level Control

    Jun 27, 2026Runji Cai, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Ling XiaoVision-Language NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  54. He3-Seeker: Robotic Information Planning for Lunar Helium-3 Distribution Mapping

    Jun 27, 2026Dong Li, Yujie Zheng, Chengdeng Cao +4Planetary ExplorationSocial Robot Navigation

  55. AirGroundBench: Probing Spatial Intelligence in Multimodal Large Models under Heterogeneous Multi-View Embodied Collaboration

    Jun 26, 2026Haotian Li, Yida Wang, Leyuan Wang +7Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsMulti-View

  56. LocalNav: Distilling Frontier VLMs and Embodied RL for On-Device Object Goal Navigation

    Jun 26, 2026Nicolas Baumann, Liam Boyle, Pu Deng +5Large Vision Language ModelsObject Goal Navigation

  57. RS-Diffuser: Risk-Sensitive Diffusion Planning with Distributional Value Guidance

    Jun 26, 2026Shiqiang GongDiffusion PlanningOffline Reinforcement Learning

  58. Ordinal Neural Collapse as a Representation Prior for Visual Navigation

    Jun 25, 2026E-In Son, Jung-Taak Kim, Seung-Woo SeoVision-Language NavigationEmbodied Navigation

  59. NavIsaacLab: Generating Realistic Crowd via Parallel Robot Learning for Benchmarking Human-aware Navigation

    Jun 24, 2026Bingyi Xia, Han Bao, Jingyu Zhu +6Social Robot NavigationPedestrian

  60. Learning Robot Visual Navigation in Crowds via Intention-Aware Scene Representations

    Jun 24, 2026Han Bao, Bingyi Xia, Hanjing Ye +5Social Robot NavigationMenu