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AgenticDiffusion: Multi-View Reasoning with View-Conditioned Diffusion Planning for Vision-Based UAV Navigation
Jun 2, 2026Faryal Batool, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Fawad Mehboob +2Aerial Robotics Trajectory Generation
SPADE: Sketch-guided Path Planning Augmented with Diffusion Experts
Jun 2, 2026Charbel Abi Hana, Tatiana Ghantous, Mikael Khalil +1Data Augmentation Robot Navigation
IDEALworks GmbH · IMT Atlantique · IDEALworks GmbH & Saint Joseph University of Beirut
Reliability-Guided Depth Fusion for Glare-Resilient Navigation Costmaps
Jun 2, 2026Shang-En TsaiDepth Estimation Robot Navigation
Autonomous Navigation System for Library Service Robot Based on Unitree Go2 Edu
Jun 2, 2026Aoduo Li, Haoran Lv, Bingquan Ou +3Robot Navigation Robotics
Guangdong University of Technology · Shenzhen Polytechnic University
Co-training with Ego-centric Video and Demonstration for Robot Navigation Task
Jun 1, 2026Shoya Kuno, Yumo Ouchi, Kanata SuzukiMobile Robotics Robot Navigation
Spatial Robotics Research Center, Fujitsu Limited., Kanagawa 211-8588, Japan.
Closed-Form Pose Estimation of Endoluminal Medical Devices via Gradiometer-Based Electromagnetic Localization System
Jun 1, 2026Zhiwei Wu, Jiahao Luo, Yubo Pu +3Robot Navigation Object Pose Estimation
School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
Hierarchical Semantic-Augmented Navigation: Optimal Transport and Graph-Driven Reasoning for Vision-Language Navigation
Jun 1, 2026Xiang Fang, Wanlong Fang, Changshuo WangRobot Navigation Robotic RL
School of Software Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme University College London
PSG-Nav: Probabilistic Scene Graph Navigation via Multiverse Decision Making
May 31, 2026Rufeng Chen, Yue Chang, Xiaqiang Tang +2Continual Robot Learning Embodied Navigation
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangdong, China · Jilin University, Jilin, China
OSCAR: Obstacle Survival Curves for Adaptive Robot Navigation
May 31, 2026Hshmat Sahak, Aoran Jiao, Nicholas Rhinehart +1Robot Navigation Graph-Based Planning
University of Toronto, Canada
BEVIO: Efficient Bird's-Eye-View based Sparse-Update Visual-Inertial Odometry for Lunar Day-Night Navigation
May 30, 2026Mohit Singh, Shehryar Khattak, Ashish Goel +3Robot Navigation Visual Odometry
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. · Autonomous Robots Lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
LiftNav: Path Planning via Semantic Lifting in TSDF-Guided Gaussian Splatting
May 29, 2026Hannah Schieber, Dominik Frischmann, Victor Schaack +2Trajectory Optimization Robot Navigation
Technical University of Munich, Human-Centered Computing and Extended Reality Lab, TUM University Hospital, Clinic for Orthopedics and Sports Orthopedics, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI) · Technical University of Munich, Learning Systems and Robotics Lab, Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI)
TARIC: Memory-Augmented Traversability-Aware Outdoor VLN under Interrupted Semantic Cues
May 29, 2026Tianle Zeng, Hanjing Ye, Jianwei Peng +3Robot Navigation Vision-Language Navigation
Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Robotics and Computer Vision, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. · CKS Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China. · College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, Hunan, China.
Learning-Based Navigation for Indoor Mobile Robots
May 28, 2026Tri-Tin Nguyen, Tien-Dat Nguyen, Gia-Uy Le +2Robot Navigation Motion Planning
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, VNU-HCM Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Fisher-Preserving Guidance: Training-Free Manifold Constraints for Safe Diffusion Control
May 28, 2026Hao Ren, Zetong Bi, Yiming Zeng +5Diffusion Model Guidance Diffusion-Based Planning
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Insta360 Research, Shenzhen, China
EXACT-MPPI: Exact Signed-Distance Navigation for Arbitrary-Footprint Robots from Point Clouds via Path Integral Control
May 28, 2026Chen Peng, Zhikang Ge, Wenwu Lu +3Robot Navigation Robot Motion Planning
ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA
Ontology-Guided Reasoning for Affordance-Based Explanations of Robot Navigation
May 27, 2026Amar Halilovic, Vahidin Hasic, Senka KrivicRobot Navigation Safe Robot Navigation
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany · Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, BiH
Self-Supervised Online Robot-Agnostic Traversability Estimation for Open-World Environments
May 27, 2026Julia Hindel, Simon Bultmann, Houman Masnavi +2Continual Robot Learning Robot Navigation
Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany.
STR Robot: Design of an Autonomous Mobile Robot from Simulation to Reality
May 27, 2026Vinh Nguyen, Gia-Uy Le, Tien-Dat Nguyen +2Robotic Control Mobile Robotics
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, VNU-HCM Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Uni-LaViRA: Language-Vision-Robot Actions Translation for Unified Embodied Navigation
May 26, 2026Hongyu Ding, Sizhuo Zhang, Ziming Xu +13Large Language Model-Based Robot Planning Robot Navigation
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Beihang University, Beijing, China +2
Resolving Conflicts Where and When They Arise: Reactive Composition of Multi-Goal Behavior
May 26, 2026Vito Mengers, Oliver BrockRobotic Control Robot Navigation
Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin · Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany
Credibility-Aware Learning and Control for Safe USV Navigation under Perception Uncertainty
May 26, 2026Yuhang Zhang, Shuqi Chai, Yukang Zhang +5Collision Avoidance Robot Navigation
School of Information Engineering, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang 471023, China · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen 518172, China · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518172, China +5
Look Further: Socially-Compliant Navigation System in Residential Buildings
May 26, 2026Akira Shiba, Marina Obata, Nathan Kau +4Robot Navigation Social Robot Navigation
Woven by Toyota, Inc., Japan
NightSight: Passive Computation for Navigation in Dark Using Events
May 25, 2026Deepak Singh, Brijan Vaghasiya, Shreyas Khobragade +1Event-Based Vision Depth Estimation
Perception and Autonomous Robotics (PeAR) Group Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, USA
Collaborative Navigation and Exploration with $β$ -Sparse Gaussian Processes
May 25, 2026Evangelos Psomiadis, Dipankar Maity, Panagiotis TsiotrasMulti-Robot Systems Robot Navigation
D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
G-DRAGON: Geospatial Reasoning and Dynamic Planning for Retrieval-Augmented Outdoor Navigation
May 25, 2026Dongzhihan Wang, Yi Du, Jianan Sun +5Off-Road Robot Navigation Large Language Model-Based Robot Planning
School of Future Technology, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
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-Claraco3D Point Cloud Segmentation Robot Navigation
Department of Informatics, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain · Department of Engineering, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain
Grow-Prune-Freeze Networks: Adaptive & Continual Learning Technique for Olfactory Navigation
May 24, 2026Kordel K. France, Ovidiu DaescuNon-Stationary RL Partially Observable RL
Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Performance Comparison of Classical and Neural Sampling Algorithms for Robotic Navigation
May 24, 2026Hichem Cheriet, Badra Khellat Kihel, Samira ChouraquiRobot Navigation Sampling-Based Motion Planning
dept. of Computer Science Universit´e d’USTO Mohamed Boudiaf Oran, Algeria · dept. of Economics Oran2 Mohamed BenAhmed University Oran, Algeria
Convex-Neural RRT*: Fast and Reliable Learning-Guided Sampling for High-Quality Robot Path Planning
May 24, 2026Hichem Cheriet, Badra Khellat Kihel, Samira Chouraqui +1Robot Navigation Motion Planning
Elevator-LIO: Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry for Multi-Floor Navigation under Elevator-Induced Non-Inertial Motion
May 23, 2026Yifan Zhang, Yudong Huang, Yuchong Zhang +4Kalman Filtering Inertial Odometry
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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AgenticDiffusion: Multi-View Reasoning with View-Conditioned Diffusion Planning for Vision-Based UAV Navigation

Faryal Batool, Muhammad Ahsan Mustafa, Fawad Mehboob, Valerii Serpiva+1

Aerial Robotics Trajectory Generation Diffusion-Based Planning Robot Navigation UAV Navigation Robot Task Planning+1

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Vision-based UAV navigation becomes challenging when navigation targets are distributed across complementary camera views and cannot be reliably observed from a single viewpoint. We propose AgenticDiffusion, an agentic multi-view UAV navigation framework that semantically coordinates first-person-view (FPV) and top-view observations for mission-level navigation. Given a natural-language instruction, AgenticDiffusion identifies the requested targets, selects the most appropriate camera view for each navigation task, determines the corresponding navigation goal, and invokes the appropriate view-conditioned diffusion planner for trajectory generation. The resulting trajectories are executed using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC). AgenticDiffusion was evaluated in four real-world indoor scenarios, achieving an overall mission success rate of 80% across 40 physical-flight trials. In mixed-visibility scenarios, where the requested targets were distributed across FPV and top-view observations, coordinated multi-view navigation reduced average mission time by 50.8% relative to FPV-only navigation and by 26.8% relative to Top-only navigation. The semantic view-selection mechanism was also robust to lexical variation in target descriptions, achieving 100% accuracy across 66 test cases, compared with 63.64% for a confidence-based view-selection baseline. In a substantially larger Gazebo environment, AgenticDiffusion achieved a 90% mission success rate and completed the multi-stage mission, whereas the FPV-only and Top-only variants were unable to complete all requested navigation tasks.

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