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  1. From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

    Jul 15, 2026Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero +1Robot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Univ. Pablo de Olavide

  2. Flow-aware Optimal Navigation in Unsteady Flows through Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Andrea Maria Braghin, Nicolò Botteghi, Matteo Tomasetto +2Partially Observable RLRobot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy · MOX, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

  3. MAMMOTH: A Multi-Modal End-to-End Policy for Off-Road Mobility Robust to Missing Modality

    Jul 14, 2026Ahaan Kotian, Shivani Subramanyan, Suresh SundaramMissing-Modality LearningOff-Road Robot Navigation

    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, India.

  4. PixelLoop: Shortcut Topological Navigation with Pixel-Level Loops

    Jul 14, 2026Sarthak Chittawar, Vansh Garg, Aditya Vadali +4Robot NavigationLoop Closure Detection

    Robotics Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad, India

  5. StratMamba: Strategic and Reactive Stream Partitioning for Path-Efficient LiDAR-Based Obstacle Avoidance

    Jul 14, 2026Hung-Chieh Wu, Xiaopan Zhang, Kasra Sinaei +6RL for RoboticsMamba

    1The Pennsylvania State University, USA. · 2AlphaZ, Inc., USA. · 3Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. +1

  6. Enabling 24-hour Agricultural Robotics: Unsupervised Day-to-Night Cross-Modal Image Translation for Nighttime Visual Navigation

    Jul 13, 2026Robel Mamo, Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak +1Image-to-Image TranslationRobot Navigation

    LaSER Lab, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USA. · Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln LN2 2LG, UK.

  7. Self-Healing Visual Recovery for Autonomous Ground Vehicles Using Camera-Only Visual Odometry

    Jul 13, 2026Jakob Solberg Berntzen, Safia Fatima, Leon MoonenVisual NavigationRobot Navigation

    Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway · University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

  8. Stop to Decide: Latency-Aware Proprioceptive Navigation Primitives for Mapping-Free Quadruped Inspection

    Jul 13, 2026Hanting Suo, Haonan Yan, Liang Wang +1Robotic ControlRobot Navigation

    School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. · School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. · School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

  9. Learning to Navigate with Minimal Parameters: Decomposing Visual Navigation Through Closed-Form Geometric Interfaces

    Jul 13, 2026Edward Beng Wai Tan, Siew-Kei LamVisual NavigationRobot Policy Learning

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  10. SLIDER: Sparse History-Guided Aerial Robot Target Search using Sliding Local Maps

    Jul 12, 2026Xiaolei Hou, Zheng Pan, Hua Lan +6Aerial RoboticsRobot Navigation

  11. ABot-N1: Toward a General Visual Language Navigation Foundation Model

    Jul 11, 2026Ruiyan Gong, Yingnan Guo, Junjun Hu +43Robotic ControlRobot Foundation Models

  12. PIER-Flow: Physics-Informed Efficient Rectified Flow for Real-Time Mobile Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Shibo Li, Zhongcheng Wang, Jiahe Cao +2Constrained Motion PlanningRobot Policy Learning

    School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Department of Robotics, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi SE45 05, United Arab Emirates

  13. REMIND: RE-Identification with Memory for INDoor Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Pablo Diaz-Pereda, Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, David Perez-Saura +1Robot NavigationRobotic Perception

    Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group at Centre for Automation and Robotics C.A.R. (UPM-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (CVAR-UPM), Calle Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.

  14. STEMbot: A Compliant Robot for Under-Canopy Plant Navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Zachary Charlick, Nilay Roy Choudhury, Haoyu Ma +2Simultaneous Localization and MappingRobot Navigation

    Robotics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  15. GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

    Jul 8, 2026Peter Bohm, Saimunur Rahman, Abdelwahed Khamis +3VLM AdaptationRobot Navigation

    CSIRO Technology, Australia

  16. UniLM-Nav: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Last-Mile Navigation

    Jul 7, 2026Zhuofan Zhang, Tianxu Wang, Guoxi Zhang +6Mobile ManipulationRobot Navigation

    1Tsinghua University · 2State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · 3Harbin Institute of Technology +1

  17. Towards Real-World Applications with an Autonomous Powered Wheelchair

    Jul 7, 2026Simone Arreghini, Alessandro Giusti, Alex Bordini +3Robot NavigationAssistive Robotics

    Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), USI-SUPSI, Lugano, Switzerland. · Genny Factory, Sant’Antonino, Switzerland.

  18. TRISTAR: Triple-Signal Stair Recognition and Vision-Only Indoor Navigation for Search-and-Rescue Micro-UAVs

    Jul 4, 2026Octavian Gîngu, Stelian SpînuRobot NavigationUAV Navigation

    Military Technical Academy “Ferdinand I”, Bucharest, Romania

  19. CoFL-S: Spatially Queryable Sector Flow Fields for Local Language-Conditioned Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Haokun Liu, Zhaoqi Ma, Yicheng Chen +5Robotic ControlRobot Navigation

    Dragon Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo

  20. SPLC: Social Preference Learning for Crowd Robot Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Zixuan Chen, Hao Fu, Haiwen Hu +1Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology and also with the Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Real-time Industrial System, Wuhan 430081, China

  21. Path planning for unmanned naval surface vehicles

    Jul 2, 2026Daniel G. SchwartzRobot NavigationDynamic Obstacle Avoidance

    Department of Computer Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA

  22. SE(2) Navigation Mesh

    Jul 1, 2026Shuyang Shi, Kaixian Qu, Changan Chen +3Constrained Motion PlanningRobot Navigation

    Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

  23. Robots Ask the Way: Communication-Enabled Social Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Valentino Sacco, Luca Scofano, Indro Spinelli +1Robot NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  24. DART-VLN: Test-Time Memory Decay and Anti-Loop Regularization for Discrete Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Shaoheng Zhang, Zhichen Li, Jie MeiRobot NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Intelligence Science and Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China · School of Computer Science and Technology Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China

  25. LeCropFollow: Latent Space Planning for Navigation in Unstructured Crop Fields

    Jun 30, 2026Felipe Tommaselli, Francisco Affonso, Arthur Pompeu +4Robot NavigationAgricultural Robotics

    Mobile Robotics Group, Center for Robotics (CRob), São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC), University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil · DASLab, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

  26. MVP-Nav: Multi-layer Value Map Planner Navigator

    Jun 30, 2026Wenyuan Xie, Shaokai Wu, Yijin Zhou +7Robot NavigationObject-Goal Navigation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  27. RoamFlow: Reinforcement-Aligned One-Step Action MeanFlow Policy for Image-Goal Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Zixuan Zhang, Yuqi Chen, Junjie Gao +4Visual NavigationRobot Navigation

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  28. Flying to Image-Specified Objects: 3D Quadrotor Navigation via Cross-Graph Memory and Viewpoint Planning

    Jun 29, 2026Junjie Gao, Yuqi Chen, Yongzhou Pan +3Visual NavigationNext-Best-View Planning

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

  29. AUSLUN: A Fixed-Hover UAV--USV System for GNSS-Denied Maritime Search and Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Siyuan Yang, Zikai Jia, Hailiang Kuang +4Robot NavigationGNSS-Denied Localization

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi 127788, United Arab Emirates

  30. CORE Planner: Contextual-memory Oriented Reinforcement-learning in Unknown Environments for Robot Navigation

    Jun 28, 2026Jintao Kong, Zhihao Zhang, Weihuang Chen +4Reinforcement LearningRobot Navigation

    State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University