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  1. Don't Retrieve, Navigate: Distilling Enterprise Knowledge into Navigable Agent Skills for QA and RAG

    Apr 16, 2026Yiqun Sun, Pengfei Wei, Lawrence B. HsiehReusable Agent SkillsText Corpora

  2. Reliability-Guided RGB-D Sensor Fusion for Glare-Resilient Navigation Costmaps

    Apr 14, 2026Shang-En Tsai, Wei-Cheng SunRgb-Depth CamerasObstacle Avoidance

  3. Incremental Residual Reinforcement Learning Toward Real-World Learning for Social Navigation

    Apr 9, 2026Haruto Nagahisa, Kohei Matsumoto, Yuki Tomita +2Scalable Robot LearningSocial Robot Navigation

  4. Designing Privacy-Preserving Visual Perception for Robot Navigation Based on User Privacy Preferences

    Apr 7, 2026Xuying Huang, Sicong Pan, Delphine Reinhardt +1Social Robot NavigationAI Privacy Risks and Protection

  5. An Asynchronous Two-Speed Kalman Filter for Real-Time UUV Cooperative Navigation Under Acoustic Delays

    Apr 3, 2026Shuyue Li, Miguel López-Benítez, Eng Gee Lim +5Autonomous Underwater VehiclesExtended Kalman Filter

  6. DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation

    Mar 30, 2026Maoguo Gao, Zejun Zhu, Zhiming Sun +6MenuHumanoid Robotics

  7. Point of View: How Perspective Affects Perceived Robot Sociability

    Mar 30, 2026Subham Agrawal, Aftab Akthar, Nils Dengler +1Human-Robot InteractionSocial Robot Navigation

  8. StateLinFormer: Stateful Training Enhancing Long-term Memory in Navigation

    Mar 24, 2026Zhiyuan Chen, Yuxuan Zhong, Fan Wang +4Persistent StateLong-Term Memory

  9. REST: Receding Horizon Explorative Steiner Tree for Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation

    Mar 19, 2026Shuqi Xiao, Maani Ghaffari, Chengzhong Xu +1Object Goal NavigationNavigation

  10. FlatLands: Generative Floormap Completion From a Single Egocentric View

    Mar 16, 2026Subhransu S. Bhattacharjee, Dylan Campbell, Rahul ShomeBird'S-Eye ViewIndoor Environments

  11. The Metric Slingshot: Navigational Reuse as Width-Optimal Structural Decoupling in Continual Learning

    Mar 16, 2026Xin LiHuman Visual CortexEmbodied Navigation

  12. SmoothTurn: Learning to Turn Smoothly for Agile Navigation with Quadrupedal Robots

    Mar 13, 2026Zunzhi You, Yunke Wang, Haolan Guo +1Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesLegged Robots

  13. Rethinking Gaussian Trajectory Predictors: Calibrated Uncertainty for Safe Planning

    Mar 11, 2026Fatemeh Cheraghi Pouria, Mahsa Golchoubian, Katherine Driggs-CampbellTrajectory PredictionPredictive Uncertainty

  14. Degeneracy-Resilient Teach and Repeat for Geometrically Challenging Environments Using FMCW Lidar

    Mar 10, 2026Katya M. Papais, Wenda Zhao, Timothy D. BarfootRobust Lidar-Inertial OdometryLidar

  15. RAE-NWM: Navigation World Model in Dense Visual Representation Space

    Mar 10, 2026Mingkun Zhang, Wangtian Shen, Fan Zhang +3Efficient World-Action ModelNavigation

  16. APPLV: Adaptive Planner Parameter Learning from Vision-Language-Action Model

    Mar 9, 2026Yuanjie Lu, Beichen Wang, Zhengqi Wu +4Vision-Language NavigationAutonomous Navigation

  17. CN-CBF: Composite Neural Control Barrier Function for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments

    Mar 6, 2026Bojan Derajić, Sebastian Bernhard, Wolfgang HönigControl Barrier FunctionsSocial Robot Navigation

  18. History-Conditioned Spatio-Temporal Visual Token Pruning for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation

    Mar 6, 2026Qitong Wang, Yijun Liang, Ming Li +2Vision-Language NavigationVisual Token Pruning

  19. OpenFrontier: General Navigation with Visual-Language Grounded Frontiers

    Mar 5, 2026Esteban Padilla-Cerdio, Boyang Sun, Marc Pollefeys +1Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Navigation

  20. UltraStar: Semantic-Aware Star Graph Modeling for Echocardiography Navigation

    Mar 2, 2026Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Chenxi Li +6Sequential Visual LocalizationNavigation

  21. Understanding Fire Through Thermal Radiation Fields for Mobile Robots

    Feb 22, 2026Anton R. Wagner, Madhan Balaji Rao, Xuesu Xiao +1Social Robot NavigationThermal Imaging

  22. pFedNavi: Structure-Aware Personalized Federated Vision-Language Navigation for Embodied AI

    Feb 16, 2026Qingqian Yang, Hao Wang, Sai Qian Zhang +6Vision-Language NavigationFederated Learning

  23. LongNav-R1: Horizon-Adaptive Multi-Turn RL for Long-Horizon VLA Navigation

    Feb 12, 2026Yue Hu, Avery Xi, Qixin Xiao +4Vision-Language NavigationLong-Horizon Planning

  24. ReaDy-Go: Real-to-Sim Dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting Simulation for Environment-Specific Visual Navigation with Moving Obstacles

    Feb 12, 2026Seungyeon Yoo, Youngseok Jang, Dabin Kim +3Zero-Shot Sim-To-Real TransferObject Goal Navigation

  25. NavDreamer: Video Models as Zero-Shot 3D Navigators

    Feb 10, 2026Xijie Huang, Weiqi Gai, Tianyue Wu +5Vision-Language Navigation

  26. High-Speed Vision-Based Flight in Clutter with Safety-Shielded Reinforcement Learning

    Feb 9, 2026Jiarui Zhang, Chengyong Lei, Chengjiang Dai +4Autonomous Drone NavigationObstacle Avoidance

  27. Insect-inspired Visual Point-goal Navigation

    Jan 23, 2026Yihe Lu, Barbara WebbObject Goal NavigationBio-Inspired Framework

  28. A Probabilistic Approach to Trajectory-Based Optimal Experimental Design

    Jan 16, 2026Ahmed AttiaBayesian Experimental DesignTrajectory Optimization

  29. Agile and Generalized Legged Locomotion via Attention-Based Neural Map Encoding

    Jan 13, 2026Chong Zhang, Victor Klemm, Fan Yang +1Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesParkour Locomotion

  30. OpenGround: Planning-based Online Perception for Open-World 3D Visual Grounding

    Dec 28, 2025Wenyuan Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Zhao Wang +43D Visual GroundingVision-Language Navigation

  31. MUSON: A Reasoning-oriented Multimodal Dataset for Socially Compliant Navigation in Urban Environments

    Dec 28, 2025Zhuonan Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Zishuo Wang +8Vision-Language NavigationMultimodal Dataset

  32. Stereo4DWalker: Learning 4D-aware Embodied Urban Navigation from Internet Stereo Videos

    Dec 11, 2025Wentao Zhou, Xuweiyi Chen, Vignesh Rajagopal +3Embodied NavigationNavigation

  33. Efficient-VLN: A Simple yet Strong Baseline for Efficient Vision-Language Navigation

    Dec 11, 2025Duo Zheng, Shijia Huang, Yanyang Li +1Vision-Language NavigationLarge Vision Language Models

  34. IndustryNav: Exploring Spatial Reasoning of Embodied Agents in Dynamic Industrial Navigation

    Nov 21, 2025Yifan Li, Lichi Li, Anh Dao +15Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Reasoning

  35. EgoCogNav: Cognition-aware Human Egocentric Navigation

    Nov 15, 2025Zhiwen Qiu, Ziang Liu, Wenqian Niu +2NavigationHuman Motion Prediction

  36. Deep Active Inference with Diffusion Policy and Multiple Timescale World Model for Real-World Exploration and Navigation

    Oct 27, 2025Riko Yokozawa, Kentaro Fujii, Yuta Nomura +1Social Robot NavigationDiffusion Policies

  37. OmniNWM: Omniscient Driving Navigation World Models

    Oct 21, 2025Bohan Li, Zhuang Ma, Dalong Du +10Autonomous DrivingWorld Models

  38. MM-Nav: Multi-View VLA Model for Robust Visual Navigation via Multi-Expert Learning

    Oct 3, 2025Tianyu Xu, Jiawei Chen, Jiazhao Zhang +5Vision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

  39. What Matters in RL-Based Methods for Object-Goal Navigation? An Empirical Study and A Unified Framework

    Oct 2, 2025Hongze Wang, Boyang Sun, Jiaxu Xing +5Object Goal NavigationNavigation

  40. Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking

    Sep 1, 2025Pilar Bachiller-Burgos, Ulysses Bernardet, Luis V. Calderita +8Social Robot Navigation

  41. Imaginative World Modeling with Scene Graphs for Embodied Agent Navigation

    Aug 9, 2025Yue Hu, Junzhe Wu, Ruihan Xu +5Embodied NavigationEmbodied Agents

  42. SCREP: Scene Coordinate Regression and Evidential Learning-based Perception-Aware Trajectory Generation

    Jul 10, 2025Juyeop Han, Lukas Lao Beyer, Guilherme V. Cavalheiro +1Trajectory PredictionAutonomous Navigation

  43. StreamVLN: Streaming Vision-and-Language Navigation via SlowFast Context Modeling

    Jul 7, 2025Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan, Xiqian Yu +9Vision-Language Navigation

  44. A Graph-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach with Frontier Potential Based Reward for Safe Cluttered Environment Exploration

    Apr 16, 2025Gabriele Calzolari, Vidya Sumathy, Christoforos Kanellakis +1Efficient ExplorationAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  45. Fine-Grained Instruction-Guided Graph Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Mar 14, 2025Yaohua Liu, Binkai Ou, Rong Fu +2Vision-Language NavigationSpatial Reasoning

  46. Mem2Ego: Empowering Vision-Language Models with Global-to-Ego Memory for Long-Horizon Embodied Navigation

    Feb 20, 2025Lingfeng Zhang, Yuecheng Liu, Zhanguang Zhang +19Vision-Language NavigationEmbodied Navigation

  47. VL-Nav: Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning-based Vision-Language Navigation

    Feb 2, 2025Yi Du, Taimeng Fu, Zhipeng Zhao +6Vision-Language NavigationMenu

  48. Image-based Geo-localization for Robotics: Are Black-box Vision-Language Models there yet?

    Jan 28, 2025Sania Waheed, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael Milford +2Cross-View Geo-LocalizationVision-Language Navigation

  49. TiROD: Tiny Robotics Dataset and Benchmark for Continual Object Detection

    Sep 24, 2024Francesco Pasti, Riccardo De Monte, Davide Dalle Pezze +2Robotic DatasetsEfficient Continual Learning

  50. Open-Vocabulary Object-Goal Navigation by Generalizing Semantic Mapping with Dense CLIP

    Jul 12, 2024Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan, Tai Wang +6Vision-Language NavigationOpen-Vocabulary

  51. N-dimensional Convex Obstacle Avoidance using Hybrid Feedback Control (Extended version)

    Mar 17, 2024Mayur Sawant, Ilia Polushin, Abdelhamid TayebiObstacle AvoidanceSocial Robot Navigation

  52. Seeing Through Uncertainty: Free-Energy-Inspired Real-Time Adaptation for Robust Visual Navigation

    Mar 4, 2024Maytus Piriyajitakonkij, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Mingfei Sun +2Object Goal NavigationSensory Feedback

  53. LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation

    Date pendingShaoan Wang, Aocheng Luo, Fei Huang +17Embodied NavigationSpatial Reasoning

  54. Learning Traversability for Long Horizon Off-Road Navigation

    Date pendingKasi Viswanath, Jason M. Gregory, Shaunak Kolhe +1TraversabilityAutonomous Navigation

  55. Obstacle-Aware Autonomous Coverage and Navigation for Outdoor Robots

    Date pendingLeonardo Gargani, Matteo Frosi, Matteo MatteucciObstacle AvoidanceRobot Operating System

  56. FastMap: Real-Time Semantic Map Completion via Bitwise Masked Modeling

    Date pendingYijie Deng, Shuaihang Yuan, Congcong Wen +2Semantic MappingDense Semantic Segmentation

  57. MMGR: Multi-Modal Generative Reasoning Benchmark and Evaluation

    Date pendingZefan Cai, Haoyi Qiu, Tianyi Ma +13Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksFluency