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cs.RO2026

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

Junjie Gao, Yuqi Chen, Yongzhou Pan +3

Instance-Specific Image-Goal Navigation (InstanceImageNav) requires a robot to navigate toward the exact object instance depicted in a query image. Extending this task to quadrotor…

cs.RO2026

GaussFly: Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Visuomotor Policies in 3D Gaussian Fields

Yuhang Zhang, Mingsheng Li, Yujing Shang +4

Learning visuomotor policies for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs) relying solely on monocular vision is an attractive yet highly challenging paradigm. Existing end-to-end learning…

cs.RO2026

Learning Adaptive Cross-Embodiment Visuomotor Policy with Contrastive Prompt Orchestration

Yuhang Zhang, Chao Yan, Jiaxi Yu +2

Learning adaptive visuomotor policies for embodied agents remains a formidable challenge, particularly when facing cross-embodiment variations such as diverse sensor configurations…

cs.RO2025

Oracle-Guided Masked Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Visuomotor Policies

Yuhang Zhang, Jiaping Xiao, Chao Yan +1

A prevailing approach for learning visuomotor policies is to employ reinforcement learning to map high-dimensional visual observations directly to action commands. However, the com…

cs.RO2025

Grounded Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs with Open-Vocabulary Goal Understanding

Yuhang Zhang, Haosheng Yu, Jiaping Xiao +1

Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) is a long-standing challenge in autonomous robotics, aiming to empower agents with the ability to follow human instructions while navigating co…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

FM-Planner: Foundation Model Guided Path Planning for Autonomous Drone Navigation

Jiaping Xiao, Cheng Wen Tsao, Yuhang Zhang +1

Path planning is a critical component in autonomous drone operations, enabling safe and efficient navigation through complex environments. Recent advances in foundation models, par…

cs.RO2024★ 7 cited

Learning Resilient Formation Control of Drones with Graph Attention Network

Jiaping Xiao, Xu Fang, Qianlei Jia +1

The rapid advancement of drone technology has significantly impacted various sectors, including search and rescue, environmental surveillance, and industrial inspection. Multidrone…

cs.RO2024

Clustering-based Learning for UAV Tracking and Pose Estimation

Jiaping Xiao, Phumrapee Pisutsin, Cheng Wen Tsao +1

UAV tracking and pose estimation plays an imperative role in various UAV-related missions, such as formation control and anti-UAV measures. Accurately detecting and tracking UAVs i…

cs.RO2024★ 40 cited

Vision-based Learning for Drones: A Survey

Jiaping Xiao, Rangya Zhang, Yuhang Zhang +1

Drones as advanced cyber-physical systems are undergoing a transformative shift with the advent of vision-based learning, a field that is rapidly gaining prominence due to its prof…

cs.RO2023★ 20 cited

Target Search and Navigation in Heterogeneous Robot Systems with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Yun Chen, Jiaping Xiao

Collaborative heterogeneous robot systems can greatly improve the efficiency of target search and navigation tasks. In this paper, we design a heterogeneous robot system consisting…

cs.RO2023★ 34 cited

Learning Multi-Pursuit Evasion for Safe Targeted Navigation of Drones

Jiaping Xiao, Mir Feroskhan

Safe navigation of drones in the presence of adversarial physical attacks from multiple pursuers is a challenging task. This paper proposes a novel approach, asynchronous multi-sta…

cs.RO2022★ 51 cited

Collaborative Target Search with a Visual Drone Swarm: An Adaptive Curriculum Embedded Multistage Reinforcement Learning Approach

Jiaping Xiao, Phumrapee Pisutsin, Mir Feroskhan

Equipping drones with target search capabilities is highly desirable for applications in disaster rescue and smart warehouse delivery systems. Multiple intelligent drones that can…