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  1. FAR-LIO: Enabling High-Speed Autonomy through Fast, Accurate, and Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry

    Jun 24, 2026Maximilian Leitenstern, Marcel Weinmann, Patrick Haft +3Robust Lidar-Inertial OdometryOdometry

  2. GROVE: Grounded Pedestrian Simulation via Natural Language for Interactive Social Robot Navigation

    Jun 24, 2026Duc Tai Nguyen, Volodymyr Shcherbyna, Anh Do Duc +3PedestrianSocial Robot Navigation

  3. CLOSER-VLN: Closed-Loop Self-Verified Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Jun 24, 2026Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma +3Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  4. RAVEN: Long-Horizon Reasoning & Navigation with a Visuo-Spatio-Temporal Memory

    Jun 23, 2026Yixun Hu, Zhicheng Zheng, Lihan Zha +5Vision-Language NavigationAgent Memory

  5. SurveilNav: Collaborative Object Goal Navigation with Robot and Surveillance System

    Jun 23, 2026Ming-Ming Yu, Qunbo Wang, Rongtao Xu +5Robotic PerceptionVision-Language Navigation

  6. Vision-Language Model Reasoning for Contextual Semantic Mapping in Intralogistics

    Jun 23, 2026Marvin Rüdt, Hao Pang, Constantin Enke +2Semantic MappingVision-Language Navigation

  7. Reinforcement Learning Enables Autonomous Microrobot Navigation and Intervention in Simulated Blood Capillaries

    Jun 23, 2026Jannik Drotleff, Samuel Tovey, Paul Hohenberger +4Social Robot NavigationFluidic Transport

  8. Navigating User Behavior toward Personalized Multimodal Generation

    Jun 23, 2026Hengji Zhou, Yufeng Liu, Ye Liu +3Multimodal GenerationMultimodal Learning

  9. NavWM: A Unified Navigation World Model for Foresight-Driven Planning

    Jun 23, 2026Yanghong Mei, Longteng Guo, Ming-Ming Yu +3Efficient World-Action ModelObject Goal Navigation

  10. ObsGraph: Hierarchical Observation Representation for Embodied Reasoning and Exploration

    Jun 23, 2026Taekbeom Lee, Youngseok Jang, Jeonghwa Heo +2Hierarchical 3D Scene GraphsScene Representation

  11. DVL-DeepONet: A Physics-Guided Operator Learning for Resilient Underwater Navigation

    Jun 22, 2026Arup Kumar Sahoo, Itzik KleinAutonomous Underwater VehiclesDoppler Velocity Log

  12. Homographic Navigation: Geometry-Driven Camera Guidance for Deterministic Planar Capture

    Jun 22, 2026Dominik Kroupa, Marek Vaško, Muh Yuzril Ihza Baharuddin +1Keypoint DetectionEmbodied Navigation

  13. Trajectory Learning with Graph Representations for Social Robot Navigation

    Jun 21, 2026Berke Kartal, Burcu Kilic, Yigit Yildirim +1Social Robot NavigationImitation Learning

  14. FlowDec: Temporal Conditional Flow Decorruptor for Robust Continuous Vision-Language Navigation

    Jun 21, 2026Yufei Zhang, Changhao ChenVision-Language NavigationNavigation

  15. Conflict-Aware Switching for CBF-CLF-Based Multi-Goal Navigation

    Jun 19, 2026Rohan Walia, Kevin LeahyControl Barrier FunctionsCollision Avoidance

  16. BIT-Nav: Brain-Inspired Trajectory Memory for Embodied Navigation

    Jun 19, 2026Rithvik Jonna, Aakash Gurram, Man Namgung +2Embodied NavigationNavigation

  17. Long-Distance Real-World Navigation of the Legged-Wheeled Robot Go2-W Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 19, 2026Takaaki Matsuzawa, Kiyoshi Irie, Tomoaki Yoshida +3Legged RobotsAutonomous Navigation

  18. Reward-free Pretraining for Reinforcement Learning via Occupancy Coverage Maximization

    Jun 19, 2026Marco Pratticò, Pietro Novelli, Massimiliano Pontil +1Sparse RewardsExternal Reward Models

  19. A scalar per patch from pre-trained ViTs enables fast moving navigation in the real world

    Jun 19, 2026Steeven Janny, Leonid Antsfeld, Christian WolfObject Goal NavigationSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

  20. Fast Human Attention Prediction for Fixation-guided Active Perception in Autonomous Navigation

    Jun 18, 2026Fatma Youssef Mohammed, Grzegorz Malczyk, Kostas AlexisViewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionAutonomous Navigation

  21. GroundControl: Anticipating Navigation Failures in Vision-Language Agents via Trajectory-Consistent Uncertainty Estimates

    Jun 18, 2026Nastaran Darabi, Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati +2Vision-Language Navigation

  22. Slow Brain, Fast Planner: Latency-Resilient VLM-Augmented Urban Navigation

    Jun 18, 2026Zhenghao "Mark'' Peng, Honglin He, Quanyi Li +2Classical PlanningNavigation

  23. FlowMaps: Modeling Long-Term Multimodal Object Dynamics with Flow Matching

    Jun 18, 2026Francesco Argenziano, Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz, Sacha Morin +3Social Robot NavigationFlow Map

  24. See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View

    Jun 18, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen +5Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  25. A Neuromorphic Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Pathfinding in Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems

    Jun 18, 2026Junzhe Xu, Zecui Zeng, Lusong Li +2Neuromorphic HardwareSocial Robot Navigation

  26. Advancing DialNav through Automatic Embodied Dialog Augmentation

    Jun 18, 2026Leekyeung Han, Sangwon Jung, Hyunji Min +3MenuNavigation

  27. UNSEEN: Uncertainty-aware Navigation via Sparse Estimation in Unknown Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Tommaso Faraci, Marco Camurri, Daniele Fontanelli +1Unknown EnvironmentsNavigation

  28. Safe Local Navigation for Ackermann-Steered Robots in Unmapped Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Christian Schaible, Shahin SirouspourObstacle AvoidanceRobotics

  29. SCAN-Planner: Spatial Collision-Aware Local Planning for Route-Guided Long-Range Quadruped Navigation

    Jun 17, 2026Han Zheng, Zhe Chen, Yiwen Fu +2Collision-Free TrajectoriesLegged Robots

  30. Interactive Pareto navigation for deep multi-task learning

    Jun 17, 2026Augustina C. Amakor, Konstantin Sonntag, Sebastian PeitzPareto FrontierMulti--Task Learning

  31. Observability and Consistency Analysis for Visual-Inertial Navigation with Anchored Feature Parameterizations

    Jun 17, 2026Mitchell Cohen, Vassili Korotkine, James Richard ForbesVisual-Inertial SystemsNavigation

  32. Generative-Model Predictive Planning for Navigation in Partially Observable Environments

    Jun 17, 2026Thomas Quilter, Yifan Zhu, Guorui Quan +2Diffusion PlanningModel-Free Reinforcement Learning

  33. EffiNav: Fusing Depth and Vision-Language for Efficient Object Goal Navigation

    Jun 17, 2026Zecheng Yin, Benedict Jun MaObject Goal NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  34. VEGA: Learning Navigation VLAs from In-the-Wild Egocentric Video with Geometric Trajectory Supervision

    Jun 16, 2026Gershom Seneviratne, Yohan Abeysinghe, Jianyu An +2Vision-Language NavigationEgocentric Video

  35. EvolveNav: Proactive Preflection and Self-Evolving Memory for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation

    Jun 16, 2026Qi Chai, Wenhao Shen, Nanjie Yao +5Vision-Language NavigationSelf-Evolving Agents

  36. Qwen-RobotNav Technical Report: A Scalable Navigation Model Designed for an Agentic Navigation System

    Jun 16, 2026Jiazhao Zhang, Gengze Zhou, Hale Yin +32NavigationTechnical Report

  37. MoCo-AIS: A Contrastive Learning Framework for Similarity Computation of Vessel Trajectories

    Jun 16, 2026Ruixin Song, Md Mahbub Alam, Zahra Sadeghi +3VesselsTrajectory Prediction

  38. StepGuard: Guarding Web Navigation via Single-Step Calibration

    Jun 16, 2026Zhihao Cui, Yuchen Zhang, Xiyang Sun +6NavigationMulti-Objective Policy Optimization

  39. Geometry-Consistent Endoscopic Representations for Image-Guided Navigation via Structured Foundation Model Adaptation

    Jun 15, 2026Hongchao Shu, Roger D. Soberanis-Mukul, Hao Ding +5Video Capsule EndoscopyFeed-Forward Visual Geometry Estimation

  40. VISTA: Scale-Aware Visual Navigation via Action History Conditioning

    Jun 15, 2026Maeva Guerrier, Koki Kobayashi, Simon Roy +2Vision-Language NavigationVision Foundation Models

  41. Stable Menus of Public Goods: AI-Enabled Progress

    Jun 15, 2026Sara FishOpenaiIntuition

  42. SidewalkBench: Benchmarking Visual Navigation on Urban Sidewalks

    Jun 15, 2026Zhizheng Liu, Honglin He, Vivek Alumootil +4PedestrianUrban Environments

  43. CrossMaps: Confidence-Aware Open-Vocabulary Semantic Mapping for Rover Navigation

    Jun 15, 2026Jan-Niklas Klein, Sona Ghahremani, Christian Medeiros Adriano +1Semantic MappingSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

  44. Binary Tracking for Spatial QA and Navigation with Open Vision-Language Models

    Jun 15, 2026Dongbin Na, Chanwoo Kim, Soonbin Rho +3Social Robot NavigationSpatial Question Answering

  45. FlashNav: Ultra-Fast Policy Training for Robot Navigation within 20 Seconds

    Jun 14, 2026Shanze Wang, Yiwei Qian, Xinming Zhang +6Social Robot NavigationDeep Reinforcement Learning

  46. Can Causal Models Enhance Robot Navigation? Online Causal Adaptation for Real-Robot Navigation

    Jun 14, 2026Zhitao Liang, Alex Mitrevski, Emmanuel Dean +1Social Robot NavigationStructural Causal Model

  47. Robots as Tokens: Unified Diffusion Transformer for Coordinated Multi-Robot Trajectory Generation

    Jun 14, 2026Ruofei Bai, Jie Chen, Yuxin Cai +3Multi-Robot Motion PlanningRobot Systems

  48. Driving, Fast or Slow? Neuro-Symbolic Guidance for Motion Prediction in Multi-Modal Ground Mobility

    Jun 13, 2026Simon Kohaut, Felix Divo, Julius Hahnewald +4Human Motion PredictionAutonomous Driving

  49. Task-Aware Environment Augmentation for Reliable Navigation via Shielded Conditional Diffusion

    Jun 13, 2026Bharawee Phoompho, Gokul Puthumanaillam, Yan Miao +4Diffusion PlanningTrajectory Prediction

  50. ForestBack: Breadcrumb-Based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning for Infrastructure-Free Return Navigation

    Jun 12, 2026Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut, Chanakan ChaipanAutonomous NavigationNavigation

  51. FloVerse: Floor Plan-Guided Multi-Modal Navigation

    Jun 12, 2026Weiqi Huang, Shuangyi Dong, Jiaxin Li +3Embodied NavigationFloor Plan Generation

  52. SplatlessDF: Continuous Distance Field Mapping with Non-Splatting Gaussians

    Jun 12, 2026Monisha Mushtary Uttsha, Lan Wu, Teresa Vidal-CallejaContinuous Distance Field3D Gaussian Splatting

  53. Guided Diffusion with Distilled Vision-Language Reliability for Aerial Navigation

    Jun 11, 2026Ivan Valuev, Iana Zhura, Valerii Serpiva +2Autonomous Drone NavigationDiffusion Planning

  54. AnyGoal: Vision-Language Guided Multi-Agent Exploration for Training-Free Lifelong Navigation

    Jun 11, 2026MoniJesu James, Marcelino Julio Fernando, Miguel Altamirano Cabrera +1Vision-Language NavigationMulti-Robot Systems

  55. NavWAM: A Navigation World Action Model for Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation

    Jun 11, 2026Daichi Azuma, Taiki Miyanishi, Koya Sakamoto +6Efficient World-Action ModelObject Goal Navigation

  56. From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation

    Jun 10, 2026Honglin He, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma +1Embodied NavigationImitation Learning

  57. Foresight: Iterative Reasoning About Clues that Matter for Navigation

    Jun 10, 2026Arthur Zhang, Carl Qi, Donne Su +3Vision-Language NavigationForesight

  58. UGV-Conditioned Multi-UAV Informative Planning on a Shared Exposure Belief

    Jun 10, 2026Lars Oerlemans, Moji Shi, Marija PopovicMulti-Uav SystemsCollision Avoidance

  59. KinematicRL: A Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Framework For Social Navigation With Kinodynamic Feasibility

    Jun 10, 2026Zhiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Chengju Liu +2Social Robot NavigationZero-Shot Sim-To-Real Transfer

  60. SAFER-Nav: Enhancing Safety for Visual Robot Navigation via Segmentation-Aware Fine-Tuning

    Jun 10, 2026Geonyeong Ko, Giung Lee, Changjoo NamSocial Robot NavigationObstacle Avoidance