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  1. SeqRoute: Global Budget-Aware Sequential LLM Routing via Offline Reinforcement Learning

    May 25, 2026Zhongling Xu, Shunan Zheng, Wei WangLarge Language Model RoutingToken Budgets

  2. GreenSeg: Ground Segmentation Algorithm for Agricultural Robots in Mediterranean Greenhouses using RGB-D Point Clouds

    May 24, 2026Fernando Cañadas-Aránega, José C. Moreno, José L. Blanco-ClaracoMediterranean GreenhousesAgricultural Robots

  3. Performance Comparison of Classical and Neural Sampling Algorithms for Robotic Navigation

    May 24, 2026Hichem Cheriet, Badra Khellat Kihel, Samira ChouraquiAutonomous NavigationNavigation

  4. Learning, locomotion, and navigation of soft synthetic snakes in three-dimensional, heterogeneous environments

    May 24, 2026Xiaotian Zhang, Ali Albazroun, Tixian Wang +3Adaptive LocomotionTerrain

  5. Loosely Coupled Factor Graph Optimization for Pseudolite-Augmented Navigation

    May 24, 2026Chih-Chun Chen, Lipeng Tan, Shiyu Bai +1Global Navigation Satellite SystemRobust Lidar-Inertial Odometry

  6. Passivity-based Semi-autonomous Rotational Motion Navigation for Rigid-body Networks: Stability and Human Passivity Analysis

    May 23, 2026Reiji Terunuma, Yuta Nakamura, Takeshi HatanakaPassiveHuman-Robot Interaction

  7. Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency: Adaptive Dynamics Orchestration for Model Predictive Control

    May 22, 2026Francesco Cancelliere, Aniket Datar, Giovanni Muscato +1Model Predictive ControlAutonomous Navigation

  8. MASt3R-Nav: WayPixel Navigation in Relative 3D Maps

    May 22, 2026Vansh Garg, Rohit Jayanti, Krish Pandya +53D MappingObject Goal Navigation

  9. PathNavigate: A Training-Free Pathology Agent with Surprise-Guided Scan and Shared Slide Memory for Whole-Slide Image VQA

    May 22, 2026Chunze Yang, Qidong Liu, Wenjie Zhao +10Whole-Slide ImagesNavigation

  10. Turning Adaptation into Assets: Cross-Domain Bridging for Online Vision-Language Navigation

    May 22, 2026Zixuan Hu, Xuantuo Huang, Yancheng Li +3Vision-Language Model AdaptationVision-Language Navigation

  11. IntentionNav: A Benchmark for Intent-Driven Object Navigation from Implicit Human Instruction

    May 22, 2026Lin Qian, Shijie Li, Sihao Lin +4MenuNavigation

  12. Autonomous Frontier-Based Exploration with VLM Guidance

    May 22, 2026Aarush Aitha, Avideh ZakhorVision-Language NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  13. AwareVLN: Reasoning with Self-awareness for Vision-Language Navigation

    May 21, 2026Wenxuan Guo, Xiuwei Xu, Yichen Liu +7Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  14. GA-VLN: Geometry-Aware BEV Representation for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation

    May 21, 2026Jiahao Yang, Zihan Wang, Xiangyang Li +4Vision-Language NavigationBird'S-Eye View

  15. Q-SpiRL: Quantum Spiking Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Robot Navigation

    May 20, 2026Mohamed Khair Altrabulsi, Nouhaila Innan, Alberto Marchisio +2Social Robot NavigationObstacle Avoidance

  16. Enhancing Graph-Based SLAM in GNSS-Denied environments by leveraging leg odometry

    May 19, 2026Léon Perruchot-Triboulet, Luc Jaulin, Kai XiaoRobust Lidar-Inertial OdometryOdometry

  17. Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? A Controlled Minimal-Pair Study

    May 19, 2026Priyansh Trivedi, Olivier SchmittCoding AgentsCode Quality

  18. D-CLING: Prior-Preserving Depth-Conditioned Fine-Tuning for Navigation Foundation Models

    May 19, 2026Shintaro Nakaoka, Takayuki Kanai, Kazuhito TanakaEmbodied NavigationNavigation

  19. P2DNav: Panorama-to-Downview Reasoning for Zero-shot Vision-and-Language Navigation

    May 19, 2026Kai Sheng, Liuyi Wang, Haojie Dai +5Vision-Language NavigationMenu

  20. FlyMirage: A Fully Automated Generation Pipeline for Diverse and Scalable UAV Flight Data via Generative World Model

    May 19, 2026Jinhan Li, Xijie Huang, Zhaoqi Wang +7Aerial Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  21. MCNav: Memory-Aware Dynamic Cognitive Map for Zero-shot Goal-oriented Navigation

    May 19, 2026Jingyu Li, Zhe Liu, Wenxiao Wu +1Object Goal NavigationVision-Language Navigation

  22. CANINE: Coaching Visually Impaired Users for Interactive Navigation with a Robot Guide Dog

    May 19, 2026Cunjun Yu, Zishuo Wang, Anxing Xiao +2AccessibilityNavigation

  23. Reason--Imagine--Act: Closed-Loop LLM Decision Making with World Models for Autonomous Driving

    May 19, 2026Zhengqi Sun, Yiwen Sun, Boxuan Liu +3Autonomous DrivingLarge Language Model Decision-Making

  24. Beyond Waypoints: Dual-Heatmap Grounding for Cross-Embodiment Semantic Navigation

    May 19, 2026Kaijie Yun, Yue ChenVision-Language NavigationRobocasa

  25. CLUE: Adaptively Prioritized Contextual Cues by Leveraging a Unified Semantic Map for Effective Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation

    May 19, 2026Taeyun Kim, Alvin Jinsung Choi, Dasol Hong +1Object Goal NavigationNavigation

  26. Aerial Inspection Behaviors via RL-based Quadrotor Control for Under-canopy Forest Environments

    May 19, 2026Fausto Mauricio Lagos Suarez, Akshit Saradagi, Vidya Sumathy +2Quadrotor ControlIterative Reinforcement Learning

  27. Orchestrating Wheeled Mobile Robots Online without Conflicts

    May 18, 2026Jianghong Dong, Yifeng Zhang, Wenhan Cao +4Robust Formation ControlObstacle Avoidance

  28. Efficient Table QA via TableGrid Navigation and Progressive Inference Prompting

    May 18, 2026Amritansh Maurya, Navjot Singh, Mohammed Javed +1Tabular DataTable Reasoning Datasets

  29. Beyond Geometry: Efficient Topologically-Grounded Navigation in Complex 3D Environments

    May 17, 2026Yifan Du, Chengwei Zhang, Siyu Liao +13D EnvironmentsSocial Robot Navigation

  30. SEDualVLN: A Spatially-Enhanced Dual-System for Vision-Language Navigation

    May 17, 2026Jingzhi Huang, Junkai Huang, Wenxuan Song +4Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  31. NORM-Nav: Zero-Shot Mobile Robot Navigation with Natural Language Behavioral Constraints

    May 16, 2026Dongjie Huo, Junhui Wang, Chao Gao +3Social Robot NavigationRobot Systems

  32. BAT-Nav: Belief-Based Arbitration and Termination via Remaining Discoverability in Multi-Goal Semantic Navigation

    May 16, 2026Xi Lin, Kangyi Wu, Jiayi Li +3Object Goal NavigationLong-Horizon Planning

  33. Emergence of a Flow-Assisted Casting Strategy for Olfactory Navigation via Memory-Augmented Reinforcement Learning

    May 16, 2026Changxu Zhao, Dongxiao Zhao, Xin Bian +1Flow-Based PolicyOlfactory Perception

  34. Fast Expanding Safe Circular Regions for Efficient Local Path Planning

    May 15, 2026Scott Fredriksson, Akshit Saradagi, George NikolakopoulosSocial Robot NavigationCoverage Path Planning

  35. WorldVLN: Autoregressive World Action Model for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    May 15, 2026Baining Zhao, Jiacheng Xu, Weicheng Feng +13Aerial Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  36. Clock-state olfactory search in turbulent flows using Q-learning: The geometry of plume recovery

    May 15, 2026Marco Rando, Robin A. Heinonen, Yujia Qi +1Olfactory PerceptionQ-Learning

  37. Reactive Robot-Centric Safety for Autonomous Navigation in Constrained and Dynamic Environments

    May 15, 2026Viswa Narayanan Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh K. Viswanathan, Akshit Saradagi +2Obstacle AvoidanceAutonomous Navigation

  38. NavRL++: A System-Level Framework for Improving Sim-to-Real Transfer in Reinforcement Learning-Based Robot Navigation

    May 15, 2026Zhefan Xu, Hanyu Jin, Kenji ShimadaZero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferSim-To-Real Gap

  39. Terrain Consistent Reference-Guided RL for Humanoid Navigation Autonomy

    May 15, 2026William D. Compton, Zachary Olkin, Aaron D. AmesPerceptive Locomotion PoliciesAutonomous Navigation

  40. Exploring Bottlenecks in VLM-LLM Navigation: How 3D Scene Understanding Capability Impacts Zero-Shot VLN

    May 14, 2026Ziyi Xia, Chaoran Xiong, Litao Wei +2Vision-Language Navigation3D Scene Understanding

  41. Towards Real-Time Autonomous Navigation: Transformer-Based Catheter Tip Tracking in Fluoroscopy

    May 14, 2026Harry Robertshaw, Yanghe Hao, Weiyuan Deng +6Catheter Tip TrackingMulti-Object Tracking

  42. Safety-Constrained Reinforcement Learning with Post-Training Reachability Verification for Robot Navigation

    May 13, 2026Qisong He, Xinmiao Huang, Jinwei Hu +4Social Robot NavigationSafety Constraints

  43. Bounded-Input True Proportional Navigation for Impact-Time Control

    May 13, 2026Lohitvel Gopikannan, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Abhinav SinhaNeural GuidanceObject Goal Navigation

  44. Robot Squid Game: Quadrupedal Locomotion for Traversing Narrow Tunnels

    May 13, 2026Amir Hossain Raj, Dibyendu Das, Xuesu XiaoLegged RobotsSocial Robot Navigation

  45. Visual Search Patterns in 3D Pancreatic Imaging: An Eye Tracking Study

    May 13, 2026Anna Anikina, Leila Khaertdinova, Trine Balschmidt +6Eye TrackingVisual Perception

  46. What Limits Vision-and-Language Navigation ?

    May 13, 2026Yunheng Wang, Yuetong Fang, Taowen Wang +9Vision-Language NavigationPretrained Vision-Language-Action

  47. HCSG: Human-Centric Semantic-Geometric Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation

    May 13, 2026Haoxuan Xu, Tianfu Li, Wenbo Chen +7Vision-Language NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  48. 3D RL-DWA: A Hybrid Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Window Approach for Goal-Directed Local Navigation in Multi-DoF Robots

    May 12, 2026Chiara Castellani, Enrico Turco, Domenico PrattichizzoSocial Robot NavigationCoverage Path Planning

  49. No Action Without a NOD: A Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Architecture for Reliable Service Agents

    May 12, 2026Zixu Yang, Hang Zheng, Nan Jiang +5Multi-Agent SystemsNavigation

  50. Learning What Matters: Adaptive Information-Theoretic Objectives for Robot Exploration

    May 12, 2026Youwei Yu, Jionghao Wang, Zhengming Yu +2Efficient ExplorationBayesian Experimental Design

  51. Urban Risk-Aware Navigation via VQA-Based Event Maps for People with Low Vision

    May 12, 2026Antoni Valls, Jordi Sanchez-RieraVision-Language NavigationAccessibility

  52. NavOL: Navigation Policy with Online Imitation Learning

    May 12, 2026Xiaofei Wei, Chun Gu, Li ZhangEmbodied NavigationImitation Learning

  53. SleepWalk: A Three-Tier Benchmark for Stress-Testing Instruction-Guided Vision-Language Navigation

    May 11, 2026Niyati Rawal, Sushant Ravva, Shah Alam Abir +5Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Reasoning

  54. Nano-U: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Tiny Robot Navigation

    May 11, 2026Federico Pizzolato, Francesco Pasti, Nicola BellottoSocial Robot NavigationTerrain

  55. Plan in Sandbox, Navigate in Open Worlds: Learning Physics-Grounded Abstracted Experience for Embodied Navigation

    May 11, 2026Zhixuan Shen, Jiawei Du, Ziyu Guo +5Embodied NavigationEmbodied Agents

  56. Neural Distance-Guided Path Integral Control for Tractor-Trailer Navigation

    May 11, 2026Peng Wei, Chen Peng, Stavros VougioukasAutonomous NavigationCollision Avoidance

  57. ConsistNav: Closing the Action Consistency Gap in Zero-Shot Object Navigation with Semantic Executive Control

    May 11, 2026Haosen Wang, Zhenyang Li, Yinqiang Zhang +9Vision-Language NavigationNavigation

  58. Beyond Isolation: A Unified Benchmark for General-Purpose Navigation

    May 10, 2026Samson Sun, Tianyi Yang, Tengyue Wang +6Embodied NavigationEmbodied Agents

  59. Safety-Critical LiDAR-Inertial Odometry with On-Manifold Deterministic Protection Level

    May 10, 2026Yueqi Zhu, Yan Pan, Chufan Rui +3Robust Lidar-Inertial OdometryAutonomous Navigation

  60. LCGNav: Local Candidate-Aware Geometric Enhancement for General Topological Planning in Vision-Language Navigation

    May 9, 2026Jiankun Peng, Jianyuan Guo, Yiguang Yang +3Vision-Language Navigation