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BioVLN: A Simulation Platform for Visual Language Navigation in Biomedical Laboratories

This work introduces BioVLN, a simulation platform for developing and evaluating visual-language navigation agents in biomedical laboratories and shows that geometric exploration reaches 74.4--87.5% success, while sampling multiple valid positions in the operation area improves success and reduces unsafe proximity.

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LightNav-0 is presented, a compact generalist embodied navigation model that elicits the spatial intelligence of a pretrained VLM and aligns it with navigation, without task-specific prediction heads, and establishes compact VLMs as a unified and transferable backbone for generalist embodied navigation.

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Offline Vision-Language Navigation with Geometric Goal Localization for Outdoor Environments

This paper presents the first systematic benchmark of 17 edge-deployable SLMs against 4 online APIs for robotic navigation instruction decomposition, and proposes a lightweight hybrid semantic-geometric goal localization framework that combines open-vocabulary object detection, prompted segmentation, and LiDAR geometry...

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The Role of Variability in Human Navigational Instructions in Visual Language Robot Navigation

Visual Language Navigation (VLN) enables robots to follow natural language instructions to navigate visually perceived environments. Typically, VLN systems are trained on multi-modal datasets that pair visual scenes with navigation instructions. While prior work has focused on generalising to unseen environments, lingu...

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Multi-Task Visual Perception Network with LLM Conditioning for Autonomous Navigation

Long-term navigation for service robots faces crit- ical challenges like the accumulation of odometry drift and sensor error, which progressively degrade 2D maps and renders traditional path planning algorithms (e.g., A*, RRT*, DiPPer, ViT-A*) ineffective over time. To address this, we propose a user-friendly, interact...

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Experimental results in various task scenarios show that the proposed framework consistently improves overall task success rates compared with unimodal settings with different LLMs and achieves a higher success rate compared to using only visual or force data.

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