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  1. Social-WM: Safety-Aware Latent World Models for Robot Social Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026Zhihao Zheng, Mooi Choo ChuahRobot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Computer Science and Engineering department, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA.

  2. VCN-Bench: A Video-Contextualized Navigation Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning over Prior Visual Experience

    Sep 28, 2026Siqi Zhang, Meng Wei, Chenyang Wan +6Vision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Tongji University · The University of Hong Kong · Zhejiang University +2

  3. Learning Social Navigation from Internet Videos in the Policy State Space

    Sep 26, 2026Jiaming Wang, Duc Thang Nguyen, Jizhuo Chen +4Safe NavigationPedestrian

    National University of Singapore, Singapore · Singapore Management University, Singapore · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +1

  4. A Field-Deployable GNSS-based Navigation Stack for Outdoor Mobile Robots

    Sep 24, 2026Yiyuan Lin, Cole Regnier, Yu JiangGlobal Navigation Satellite SystemSafe Navigation

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA · School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, USA

  5. Planning Trajectories that Bounce: Reflection Classes for Collision-Tolerant Robots

    Sep 22, 2026Subhadeep Koley, Subhrajit Bhattacharya, David SaldañaCollision-Free TrajectoriesSafe Navigation

    Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA

  6. Performance-Preserving Online Adaptation in Social Navigation via Diffusion Steering

    Sep 21, 2026Haruto Nagahisa, Kohei Matsumoto, Yuki Hyodo +1Diffusion-Based Reinforcement Learning MethodsRobot Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan · Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  7. Navi-Agent: Unlocalized Monocular Navigation Agent

    Sep 17, 2026Wenyuan Xie, Mengyang Hong, Yongzhong Wang +9Vision-Language NavigationSafe Navigation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Southern University of Science and Technology · Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics +1

  8. Tele-Traversability: Rethinking Traversability for Teleoperated Ground Robots in Terrain Navigation

    Sep 17, 2026Lewei Feng, Qi Chen, Wenshuo Wang +6TraversabilityTeleoperation

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China +5

  9. WAVE-Go: World-Model Navigation with Adaptive Execution for Wheel-Legged Robots

    Sep 16, 2026Mingyi Li, Ji Li, Zhihao Ouyang +2Object Goal NavigationSafe Navigation

    Beijing Institute of Technology · The University of Hong Kong · GAC R&D Center +2

  10. Tuning ROS 2 for Energy-Efficient Navigation: Empirical Insights from Costmap 2D Configurations

    Sep 14, 2026Michel Albonico, Andreas Wortmann, Ivano MalavoltaRobot NavigationRobot Operating System

    Federal University of Technology - Paran´a (UTFPR), DAINF-FB, Francisco Beltr˜ao, Brazil · University of Southern Denmark (SDU), MMMI, Centre for Software Technology (CST), Vejle, Denmark · Institute for Control Eng. of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany +1

  11. CANVAS: Consistency-Aware Navigation via Visual Adaptive Sampling for Long-Context Text-to-SVG Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Yichen Wu, Haoxuan Qu, Yihang Lou +2Scalable Vector GraphicSketches

    University of Nottingham · Lancaster University · Peking University

  12. Towards Socially Compliant Navigation in Deep Reinforcement Learning via Proxemics-Based Reward Modeling

    Aug 13, 2026Takieddine Soualhi, Jacques Saraydaryan, Laetitia MatignonRobot NavigationSafe Navigation

    CHROMA · Inria, CITI Lab, INRIA–INSA Chroma Team, Villeurbanne, France. · CPE, CHROMA +3

  13. IoT-Enabled Autonomous Maritime Navigation in Smart Ports: A Curriculum-Guided Shared Policy Learning Framework

    Aug 12, 2026Yuqing Lin, Rangya Zhang, Kum Fai YuenCurriculum Reinforcement LearningSafe Navigation

  14. Risk-Aware Kinodynamic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty For Safe Navigation on Planetary Environments

    Aug 11, 2026Sachin Sunil Kelkar, Tanmay Dokania, Yashwanth Kumar NakkaMotion PlanningPlanetary Exploration

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332 USA.

  15. MPPI Planning with Gaussian-Based Human Cost Function for Social Navigation

    Aug 8, 2026Chinmay MundanePedestrian Trajectory PredictionRobot Navigation

    VJTI, India

  16. Control Barrier Functions via Minkowski Operations for Safe Navigation among Polytopes

    Aug 3, 2026Yi-Hsuan Chen, Shuo Liu, Wei Xiao +2Control Barrier FunctionsObstacle Avoidance

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, and with M3S, SMART, Singapore +1

  17. StochSIPP: Safe Interval Path Planning in Stochastic Dynamic Environments

    Aug 1, 2026Ajith Kemisetti, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Yoonchang SungPath PlanningPlanning

    The University of Texas at Austin · Ben Gurion University of the Negev · Nanyang Technological University

  18. SONG: A Photorealistic 3D Gaussian Simulation Platform for Benchmarking Social Navigation

    Jul 28, 2026Weiqi Huang, Dianyi Yang, Jiaxin Li +4Safe Navigation3D Gaussian

    School of Computer Science & Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology

  19. Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation

    Jul 20, 2026Yancheng Zhu, Wanli Ma, Chen Han +3Legged RobotsObstacle Avoidance

    Anker Spatial Perception Lab

  20. G2-Nav: Grounded and Guarded Vision-Language Costmaps for Robot Social Navigation

    Jul 18, 2026Yuwen Liao, Yihang Lan, Yizhuo Yang +4Robot NavigationAutonomous Navigation

    School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  21. AutoPath: Learning Transferable Goal-Conditioned Stochastic Path Prior for Safe Navigation Without Human Demonstrations

    Jul 13, 2026Ziyang Zhang, Boyang Zhou, Zesong Yang +8Object Goal NavigationSafe Navigation

    Zhejiang University · Harbin Institute of Technology · Ant Group +2

  22. Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

    Jul 13, 2026Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3Robot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Institut des Syst`emes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR) Sorbonne Universit´e France

  23. Navigating the Crowd: Non-linear MPC with Social Forces Dynamics for Human-Aware Robot Navigation

    Jul 11, 2026Stefano Trepella, Andrea Ostuni, Mauro Martini +5Human-Robot CollaborationModel Predictive Control

    Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, 10129, Torino, Italy. · School of Engineering, Pablo de Olavide University, Crta. Utr-era km 1, Seville, Spain

  24. Effects of Robotic Touch on Older Users During Walking Guidance by a Humanoid Robot

    Jul 10, 2026Leonie Leven, Marko Ackermann, Christian Werner +4AgeSafe Navigation

    Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. · Geriatric Center, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. · Institute of Medical Psychology, University Hospital Heidelberg, and Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. +1

  25. Input-Constrained Spatiotemporal Tubes for Safe Navigation of Unknown Euler-Lagrange Systems in Dynamic Environments

    Jul 9, 2026Siddhartha Upadhyay, Ratnangshu Das, Pushpak JagtapSpatiotemporal TubeActuator

    Department of Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India · Department of Cyber-Physical Systems Indian Institute of Science„ Bengaluru, India

  26. Social-spatial dependencies for learning visual navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Patrick Govoni, Pawel RomanczukSafe NavigationSocial Dynamics

    Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany · Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany · Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany

  27. Manual, Joystick, or Haptic Control? An In Vitro Comparison of Navigation Strategies for Robotic Interventional Neuroradiology Procedures

    Jul 8, 2026Benjamin Jackson, Nikola Fischer, Harry Robershaw +16CathetersHaptic Feedback

    School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, UK

  28. RoboVAST: Automated Scenario-Based Validation of Robots at Scale

    Jul 7, 2026Frederik Pasch, Samuel Wiest, Argentina Ortega +1Scenario GenerationRobotic Systems

    Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany. · University of Bremen, Germany.

  29. Lost in Time? Continuous Symmetry and Identifiability in Aided Inertial Navigation with Unknown Measurement Delays

    Jul 4, 2026Jonathan Kelly, Phone Thiha Kyaw, Mattew GiamouInertial Navigation SystemsState Estimation

    Space & Terrestrial Autonomous Robotic Systems (STARS) Laboratory at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS), Toronto, Canada. · Autonomous Robotics & Convex Optimization (ARCO) Laboratory in the Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

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

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

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

  31. Information-Aided DVL Calibration

    Jun 30, 2026Zeev Yampolsky, Itzik KleinAutonomous Underwater VehiclesDoppler Velocity Log

    The Hatter Department of Marine Technologies Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  32. Trajectory Learning with Graph Representations for Social Robot Navigation

    Jun 21, 2026Berke Kartal, Burcu Kilic, Yigit Yildirim +1Robot NavigationSafe Navigation

    1Bogazici University · 2CREATE Consortium

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

    Jun 18, 2026Christian Schaible, Shahin SirouspourObstacle AvoidanceMobile Robots

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada

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

    Jun 13, 2026Bharawee Phoompho, Gokul Puthumanaillam, Yan Miao +4Trajectory GenerationSafe Navigation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

    Jun 10, 2026Lars Oerlemans, Moji Shi, Marija PopovicMulti-UavSafe Navigation

    MAVLab, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands

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

    Jun 10, 2026Zhiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Chengju Liu +2Robot NavigationSim-To-Real Reinforcement Learning

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 201210, China

  37. Resilient Navigation for Autonomous Farm Robots by Leveraging Jerk-Augmented Models with IMU-Only Disturbance Rejection

    Jun 9, 2026Batu Candan, Mohammed Atallah, Simone Servadio +1Extended Kalman FilterAgricultural Robotics

    Batu Candan, PhD Candidate, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA · Mohammed Atallah, PhD Candidate, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA · Dr. Simone Servadio, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA +1

  38. Act on What You See: Unlocking Safe Social Navigation in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 9, 2026Qingzi Wang, Xiyang Wu, Guangyao Shi +3Safe NavigationCollision Avoidance

    University of Maryland · University of Southern California

  39. Look Further: Socially-Compliant Navigation System in Residential Buildings

    May 26, 2026Akira Shiba, Marina Obata, Nathan Kau +4Robot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Woven by Toyota, Inc., Japan

  40. Orchestrating Wheeled Mobile Robots Online without Conflicts

    May 18, 2026Jianghong Dong, Yifeng Zhang, Wenhan Cao +4Obstacle AvoidanceSafe Navigation

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117575, Singapore · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

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

    May 16, 2026Changxu Zhao, Dongxiao Zhao, Xin Bian +1SmellsQueryable Sector Flow Fields

    State Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, School of Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China · State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China

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

    May 15, 2026Zhefan Xu, Hanyu Jin, Kenji ShimadaSim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningRobot Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

  43. What Limits Vision-and-Language Navigation ?

    May 13, 2026Yunheng Wang, Yuetong Fang, Taowen Wang +9Vision-Language NavigationSafe Navigation

    1HKUST(GZ) · 2JD Explore Academy · 1HKUST(GZ

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

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

    1AutoLab, SAI, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Research Lab, Anyverse Dynamics

  45. Effective Explanations Support Planning Under Uncertainty

    May 8, 2026Hanqi Zhou, Britt Besch, Charley M. Wu +1Explainable AI MethodsPlanning

    University of Tübingen · Technical University Darmstadt · Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics +2

  46. Learning Material-Aware Hamiltonian Risk Fields for Safe Navigation

    May 7, 2026Aditya Sai Ellendula, Yi Wang, Chandrajit BajajSafe NavigationConditional-Value-At-Risk

    Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA · Oden Institute, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA

  47. Safe Navigation using Neural Radiance Fields via Reachable Sets

    Apr 29, 2026Omanshu Thapliyal, Malarvizhi Sankaranarayanasamy, Ravigopal VennelakantiPath PlanningSafe Navigation

    Researcher, Hitachi America Ltd. Santa Clara, USA

  48. Safe Navigation in Unknown and Cluttered Environments via Direction-Aware Convex Free-Region Generation

    Apr 26, 2026Zhicheng Song, Yongjian Li, Kai Chen +3Collision-Free TrajectoriesSafe Navigation

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  49. Planning Smooth and Safe Control Laws for a Unicycle Robot Among Obstacles

    Apr 19, 2026Aref Amiri, Basak Sakcak, Steven M. LaValleRobust ControlObstacle Avoidance

    Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu · Department of Advanced Computing Sciences, Maastricht University

  50. Rule-VLN: Bridging Perception and Compliance via Semantic Reasoning and Geometric Rectification

    Apr 18, 2026Jiawen Wen, Penglei Sun, Wenjie Zhang +4Vision-Language NavigationSafe Navigation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China · 3Jul Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

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

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

    Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan · Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  52. 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

    Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, Canada

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

    Dec 28, 2025Zhuonan Liu, Xinyu Zhang, Zishuo Wang +8Vision-Language NavigationSafe Navigation

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan · Graduate School of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA

  54. EgoCogNav: Cognition-aware Human Egocentric Navigation

    Nov 15, 2025Zhiwen Qiu, Ziang Liu, Wenqian Niu +2Object Goal NavigationSafe Navigation

    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA