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  1. DynSSM: A Physics-Aware State-Space Memory Framework for Learning Vehicle Dynamics

    May 8, 2026Musabbir Ahmed Arrafi, Malik Ali, Nicholas M. Stiffler +1Vehicle DynamicsAutonomous Racing

  2. Effective Explanations Support Planning Under Uncertainty

    May 8, 2026Hanqi Zhou, Britt Besch, Charley M. Wu +1Planning MethodsNavigation

  3. PathPainter: Transferring the Generalization Ability of Image Generation Models to Embodied Navigation

    May 8, 2026Yijin Wang, Yuru Tian, Xijie Huang +5NavigationOdometry

  4. Anatomical Landmark-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Gastric Navigation

    May 8, 2026Haoxuan Wu, Sishen Yuan, Haitao Gao +3Video Capsule EndoscopyIterative Reinforcement Learning

  5. Learning Material-Aware Hamiltonian Risk Fields for Safe Navigation

    May 7, 2026Aditya Sai Ellendula, Yi Wang, Chandrajit BajajConditional-Value-At-RiskNavigation

  6. Bi3: A Biplatform, Bicultural, Biperson Dataset for Social Robot Navigation

    May 7, 2026Andrew Stratton, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Pranav Goyal +2Social Robot NavigationRobot Systems

  7. Cross-Modal Navigation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    May 7, 2026Shuo Liu, Xinzichen Li, Christopher AmatoMultimodal AgentsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  8. NavOne: One-Step Global Planning for Vision-Language Navigation on Top-Down Maps

    May 7, 2026Dijia Zhan, Jinyi Li, Chenxi Zheng +4Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  9. Plug-and-Play Label Map Diffusion for Universal Goal-Oriented Navigation

    May 7, 2026Zhixuan Shen, Yijie Zeng, Shengxiang Luo +2Object Goal NavigationSemantic Mapping

  10. From Language to Logic: A Theoretical Architecture for VLM-Grounded Safe Navigation

    May 5, 2026Kristy Sakano, Kalonji Harrington, Mumu XuVision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

  11. Semantic Risk-Aware Heuristic Planning for Robotic Navigation in Dynamic Environments: An LLM-Inspired Approach

    May 4, 2026Hamza Ahmed Durrani, Rafay Suleman DurraniRobot PlanningSocial Robot Navigation

  12. LiDAR Teach, Radar Repeat: Robust Cross-Modal Navigation in Degenerate and Varying Environments

    May 4, 2026Renxiang Xiao, Yichen Chen, Yuanfan Zhang +5LidarLight Detection And Ranging

  13. DynoSLAM: Dynamic SLAM with Generative Graph Neural Networks for Real-World Social Navigation

    May 4, 2026Danil Tokhchukov, Veronika Morozova, Gonzalo FerrerSimultaneous Localization And MappingSocial Robot Navigation

  14. Beyond Specialization: Robust Reinforcement Learning Navigation via Procedural Map Generators

    May 4, 2026Christian Jestel, Nicolas Bach, Marvin Wiedemann +2Deep Reinforcement LearningNavigation

  15. A Semantic Autonomy Framework for VLM-Integrated Indoor Mobile Robots: Hybrid Deterministic Reasoning and Cross-Robot Adaptive Memory

    May 4, 2026Bogdan Felician Abaza, Andrei-Alexandru Staicu, Cristian Vasile DoicinAutonomous Navigation

  16. SAGA: A Robust Self-Attention and Goal-Aware Anchor-based Planner for Safe UAV Autonomous Navigation

    May 4, 2026Junhao Wei, Yanxiao Li, Dexing Yao +9Autonomous Drone NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  17. EdgeLPR: On the Deep Neural Network trade-off between Precision and Performance in LiDAR Place Recognition

    May 4, 2026Pierpaolo Serio, Hetian Wang, Zixiang Wei +4Visual Place RecognitionHeterogeneous Edge Devices

  18. Change-Robust Online Spatial-Semantic Topological Mapping

    May 4, 2026Jiaming Wang, Jizhuo Chen, Diwen Liu +4Social Robot NavigationSemantic Mapping

  19. Do We Really Need Immediate Resets? Rethinking Collision Handling for Efficient Robot Navigation

    May 4, 2026Shanze Wang, Xinming Zhang, Siwei Cheng +4Social Robot NavigationCollision Prediction

  20. On the Characterization and Limits of 4D Radar for Aided Inertial Navigation

    May 3, 2026Morten Nissov, Kostas AlexisInertial Navigation SystemsRadar

  21. Multi-Scale Gaussian-Language Map for Zero-shot Embodied Navigation and Reasoning

    May 3, 2026Sixian Zhang, Yiyao Wang, Xinhang Song +3Semantic MappingEmbodied Navigation

  22. TrajRAG: Retrieving Geometric-Semantic Experience for Zero-Shot Object Navigation

    May 3, 2026Yiyao Wang, Sixian Zhang, Keming Zhang +3Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  23. MiniVLA-Nav v1: A Multi-Scene Simulation Dataset for Language-Conditioned Robot Navigation

    May 1, 2026Ali Al-Bustami, Jaerock KwonVision-Language NavigationRobotic Datasets

  24. Predictive Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs for Semi-Static Scenes

    Apr 30, 2026Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz, Charlie Gauthier, Kumaraditya Gupta +4Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs3D Scene Graphs

  25. SpaAct: Spatially-Activated Transition Learning with Curriculum Adaptation for Vision-Language Navigation

    Apr 30, 2026Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu +7Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  26. Three-Step Nav: A Hierarchical Global-Local Planner for Zero-Shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Apr 29, 2026Wanrong Zheng, Yunhao Ge, Laurent IttiVision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  27. Safe Navigation using Neural Radiance Fields via Reachable Sets

    Apr 29, 2026Omanshu Thapliyal, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Ravigopal VennelakantiNeural Radiance FieldsReachability

  28. HiPAN: Hierarchical Posture-Adaptive Navigation for Quadruped Robots in Unstructured 3D Environments

    Apr 29, 2026Jeil Jeong, Minsung Yoon, Seokryun Choi +3Legged RobotsEmbodied Navigation

  29. Bridging the Indoor-Outdoor Gap: Cross-Technology Ranging for Seamless Robot Navigation

    Apr 28, 2026Paul SchwarzbachSocial Robot NavigationGlobal Navigation Satellite System

  30. Where Did It Go Wrong? Capability-Oriented Failure Attribution for Vision-and-Language Navigation Agents

    Apr 28, 2026Jianming Chen, Yawen Wang, Junjie Wang +4Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Agents

  31. Passage-Aware Structural Mapping for RGB-D Visual SLAM

    Apr 27, 2026Ali Tourani, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Saad Ejaz +4Orb-Slam2Simultaneous Localization And Mapping

  32. FreqCache: Accelerating Embodied VLN Models with Adaptive Frequency-Guided Token Caching

    Apr 27, 2026Zihao Zheng, Xingyue Zhou, Zhihao Mao +7Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language

  33. AsyncShield: A Plug-and-Play Edge Adapter for Asynchronous Cloud-based VLA Navigation

    Apr 27, 2026Kai Yang, Zedong Chu, Yingnan Guo +6Object Goal NavigationObstacle Avoidance

  34. Safe Navigation in Unknown and Cluttered Environments via Direction-Aware Convex Free-Region Generation

    Apr 26, 2026Zhicheng Song, Yongjian Li, Kai Chen +3Collision-Free TrajectoriesNavigation

  35. Learning from Demonstration with Failure Awareness for Safe Robot Navigation

    Apr 25, 2026Xianghui Wang, Siwei Cheng, Shanze Wang +3Social Robot NavigationMotion Imitation

  36. Evaluation of image simulation open source solutions for simulation of synthetic images in lunar environment

    Apr 24, 2026Jai G Singla, Hinal B Patel, Nitant DubeLunar SurfacePlanetary Exploration

  37. Navigating Large-Scale Document Collections: MuDABench for Multi-Document Analytical QA

    Apr 24, 2026Zhanli Li, Yixuan Cao, Lvzhou Luo +1Multimodal DocumentsMulti-Hop Question Answering Benchmarks

  38. DM3^3-Nav: Decentralized Multi-Agent Multimodal Multi-Object Semantic Navigation

    Apr 23, 2026Amin Kashiri, Atharva Jamsandekar, Yasin YazıcıoğluSocial Robot NavigationNavigation

  39. Task-specific Subnetwork Discovery in Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Underwater Navigation

    Apr 23, 2026Yi-Ling Liu, Melvin Laux, Mariela De Lucas Alvarez +2Multi-Task Reinforcement LearningAutonomous Underwater Vehicles

  40. A Deployable Embodied Vision-Language Navigation System with Hierarchical Cognition and Context-Aware Exploration

    Apr 23, 2026Kuan Xu, Ruimeng Liu, Yizhuo Yang +5Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Agents

  41. Self-Predictive Representation for Autonomous UAV Object-Goal Navigation

    Apr 22, 2026Angel Ayala, Donling Sui, Francisco Cruz +3Autonomous Drone NavigationAerial Vision-Language Navigation

  42. Toward Safe Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Interventions using World Models

    Apr 22, 2026Harry Robertshaw, Nikola Fischer, Han-Ru Wu +6Autonomous Endovascular NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  43. Safety-Critical Contextual Control via Online Riemannian Optimization with World Models

    Apr 21, 2026Tongxin LiModel Predictive ControlSafety Constraints

  44. LiveVLN: Breaking the Stop-and-Go Loop in Vision-Language Navigation

    Apr 21, 2026Xiangchen Wang, Weiye Zhu, Teng Wang +5Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Navigation

  45. Multimodal embodiment-aware navigation transformer

    Apr 21, 2026Louis Dezons, Quentin Picard, Rémi Marsal +2Embodied NavigationObject Goal Navigation

  46. Multi-Step Gaussian Process Propagation for Adaptive Path Planning

    Apr 21, 2026Alex Beaudin, Bjørn Andreas Kristiansen, Kristoffer Gryte +4Gaussian ProcessCoverage Path Planning

  47. The Essence of Balance for Self-Improving Agents in Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Apr 21, 2026Zhen Liu, Yuhan Liu, Jinjun Wang +3Vision-Language NavigationRecursive Self-Improvement

  48. Explore Like Humans: Autonomous Exploration with Online SG-Memo Construction for Embodied Agents

    Apr 21, 2026Xu Chen, Shichao Xie, Zhining Gu +7Embodied NavigationCognitive Map

  49. Enhancing Glass Surface Reconstruction via Depth Prior for Robot Navigation

    Apr 20, 2026Jiamin Zheng, Jingwen Yu, Guangcheng Chen +1Depth EstimationRobotic Perception

  50. Instruction-as-State: Environment-Guided and State-Conditioned Semantic Understanding for Embodied Navigation

    Apr 20, 2026Zhen Liu, Yuhan Liu, Jinjun Wang +3Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Navigation

  51. A Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability-Guided Search Framework for Efficient and Safe Indoor Planar Robot Navigation

    Apr 20, 2026Hanyang Hu, Cameron Siu, Mo ChenHamilton-Jacobi ReachabilitySocial Robot Navigation

  52. Dual-Anchoring: Addressing State Drift in Vision-Language Navigation

    Apr 19, 2026Kangyi Wu, Pengna Li, Kailin Lyu +5Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  53. Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigation

    Apr 19, 2026Pengna Li, Kangyi Wu, Shaoqing Xu +5Object Goal NavigationLong-Horizon Tasks

  54. Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles

    Apr 19, 2026Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValleFeedback LinearizationObstacle Avoidance

  55. Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification

    Apr 18, 2026Jiawen Wen, Penglei Sun, Wenjie Zhang +4Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  56. LiDAR-based Crowd Navigation with Visible Edge Group Representation

    Apr 17, 2026Allan Wang, Aaron SteinfeldSocial Robot NavigationRobust Lidar-Inertial Odometry

  57. FineCog-Nav: Integrating Fine-grained Cognitive Modules for Zero-shot Multimodal UAV Navigation

    Apr 17, 2026Dian Shao, Zhengzheng Xu, Peiyang Wang +4Aerial Vision-Language NavigationMenu

  58. Hierarchical Active Inference using Successor Representations

    Apr 17, 2026Prashant Rangarajan, Rajesh P. N. RaoHierarchical Reinforcement LearningClassical Planning

  59. GIST: Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Spatial Grounding via Intelligent Semantic Topology

    Apr 16, 2026Shivendra Agrawal, Bradley HayesSpatial GroundingNavigation

  60. NEAT-NC: NEAT guided Navigation Cells for Robot Path Planning

    Apr 16, 2026Hibatallah Meliani, Khadija Slimani, Samira KhouljiBio-Inspired FrameworkRobot Systems