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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. Joint On-and-Off Policy Learning for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 15, 2026Qingrong He, Lin Zhao, Kevin Zheng +1Vision-Language NavigationInteractive Imitation Learning

    All authors are with Joy Future Academy.

  3. ReflectVLN: Training Vision-Language Navigation Agents with Reflective Reasoning

    Jul 14, 2026Jiahang Wang, Yirong Yang, Yanqing Zhu +4Hierarchical PlanningVision-Language Navigation

    Amap, Alibaba Group, China · Beihang University

  4. Instance-Enriched Semantic Maps for Visual Language Navigation

    Jul 14, 2026Jiho Hong, Eunae Kang, Sanghyun Kim +1Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, 17104, Republic of Korea · Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT), Suwon, 16229, Republic of Korea · School of Mechanical Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, 41566, Republic of Korea

  5. DA-Nav: Direction-Aware City-Scale Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 13, 2026Ye Yuan, Kehan Chen, Xinqiang Yu +7Embodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China +3

  6. Parse, Search, and Confirmation: Training-Free Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation with Chain-of-Thought Reasoning and Structured Spatial Memory

    Jul 13, 2026Yu Qi, Hongyu Li, Shaofei Huang +6Memory-Augmented VLMsUAV Navigation

    School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University · University of Macau +2

  7. AdvNav: Behavior-Guided Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 13, 2026Chenyang Li, Kaige Li, Zeyu Jiang +1Visual NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Sun Yat-sen University

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

    Jul 13, 2026Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3RL for RoboticsSocial Robot Navigation

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

  9. Traj-VLN: Learning Pixel-Space Interaction via Autoregressive Trajectory Generation

    Jul 12, 2026Changfei Fu, Guangcheng Chen, Wenjun Xu +1VLM AdaptationVision-Language Navigation

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

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

  11. Early to Share, Late to Save: Synchronisation-Driven Communication Gating in Bandwidth-Constrained Cooperative VLN

    Jul 9, 2026Arav Gupta, Nivedan Yakolli, Avinash GautamVision-Language NavigationMulti-Agent Communication

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus, Pilani, Rajasthan 333031, India

  12. FSD-VLN: Fast-Slow Dual-System Modeling for Aerial Long-Horizon Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu +4Vision-Language ModelsUAV Navigation

    Pengcheng Laboratory · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · Peking University

  13. A Comprehensive Survey and Systematic Real-World Evaluation of Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Liuyi Wang, Kai Sheng, Zongtao He +8Embodied NavigationMobile Robotics

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  14. EAGOR: Embodied Reasoning in Omni-direction

    Jul 7, 2026Shriram Damodaran, Soumyaratna Debnath, Yan Wu +2Vision-Language NavigationSpherical Harmonics

    EmPACT Lab, NTU Singapore · Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR Singapore

  15. Green for Go, Red for No: Visual Grounding via Semantic Segmentation for VLA Navigation Policies

    Jul 6, 2026Adrian Szvoren, Dimitrios Kanoulas, Nilufer TuptukVisual NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Department of Computer Science University College London · Department of Security and Crime Science University College London

  16. From Region Arrival to Instance-Level Grounding in Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 4, 2026Xiangyu Shi, Ruoxi Yang, Wei Tao +3Vision-Language NavigationVisual Grounding

    Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University · Ruyi Dynamics · Fudan University +1

  17. 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

  18. Path-level Hindsight Instructions for Semantic Exploration in Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 2, 2026Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim, Honglak LeeEmbodied NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Korea University, Seoul, South Korea · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

  19. 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

  20. DynFly: Dynamic-Aware Continuous Trajectory Generation for UAV Vision-Language Navigation in Urban Environments

    Jun 30, 2026Wen Jiang, Hanfang Liang, Li Wang +9UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Jianghan University, Wuhan 430056, China · Chongqing Innovation Center, Beijing Institute of Technology, Chongqing 401120, China +5

  21. A Modular Vision-Language-Action Robotics Framework for Indoor Environments

    Jun 30, 2026Anindya Jana, Snehasis Banerjee, Arup Sadhu +1Vision-Language NavigationVLMs for Robotics

    Physical AI Research TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services Kolkata, India

  22. FutureNav: Unified World-Action Modeling for Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Lingfeng Zhang, Zeying Gong, Xiaoshuai Hao +7World ModelsVision-Language Navigation

    Tsinghua University · Pengcheng Laboratory · Xiaomi EV +2

  23. AERIS: Aerial-Edge Role-Driven Intelligence at Runtime via Orchestrated Language-Model Swarm

    Jun 29, 2026Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Xinyu Liu +3Aerial RoboticsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Hangzhou International Innovation Institute, Beihang University, Hangzhou 311115, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  24. ViTL: Temporal Logic-Guided Zero-Shot Natural Language Navigation via Vision-Language Models

    Jun 29, 2026Kaier Liang, Hengde Dai, Cristian-Ioan VasileLarge Language Model-Based Robot PlanningVision-Language Navigation

    Lehigh University, PA, USA

  25. AirGroundBench: Probing Spatial Intelligence in Multimodal Large Models under Heterogeneous Multi-View Embodied Collaboration

    Jun 26, 2026Haotian Li, Yida Wang, Leyuan Wang +7Multi-View ConsistencyMultimodal Reasoning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Tsinghua University +1

  26. CLOSER-VLN: Closed-Loop Self-Verified Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

    Jun 24, 2026Shaoxuan Li, Xiangyu Dong, Xiaoguang Ma +3UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    Foshan Graduate School of Innovation, Northeastern University, Foshan 528311, China · College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China +3

  27. FlowDec: Temporal Conditional Flow Decorruptor for Robust Continuous Vision-Language Navigation

    Jun 21, 2026Yufei Zhang, Changhao ChenVLM RobustnessVision-Language Navigation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  28. BIT-Nav: Brain-Inspired Trajectory Memory for Embodied Navigation

    Jun 19, 2026Rithvik Jonna, Aakash Gurram, Man Namgung +2Vision-Language ModelsEmbodied Navigation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Johns Hopkins University · Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics Johns Hopkins University · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

  29. GroundControl: Anticipating Navigation Failures in Vision-Language Agents via Trajectory-Consistent Uncertainty Estimates

    Jun 18, 2026Nastaran Darabi, Divake Kumar, Sina Tayebati +2Uncertainty Estimation for VLA ModelsSelective Prediction

    University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

  30. See-and-Reach: Precise Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs within the Field of View

    Jun 18, 2026Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen +5UAV NavigationVision-Language Navigation

    School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China · Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia · School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China +3