6 papers
FutureNav: Unified World-Action Modeling for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Lingfeng Zhang, Zeying Gong, Xiaoshuai Hao +7
Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) in continuous environments requires an agent to ground instructions in egocentric observations while maintaining spatial understanding across l…
OneVLA: A Unified Framework for Embodied Tasks
Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Yingbo Tang +10
Navigation and manipulation are fundamental capabilities of embodied intelligence, enabling robots to interpret natural language commands and interact physically with their surroun…
Walk With Me: Long-Horizon Social Navigation for Human-Centric Outdoor Assistance
Lingfeng Zhang, Xiaoshuai Hao, Xizhou Bu +11
Assisting humans in open-world outdoor environments requires robots to translate high-level natural-language intentions into safe, long-horizon, and socially compliant navigation b…
FlexiCup: Wireless Multimodal Suction Cup with Dual-Zone Vision-Tactile Sensing
Junhao Gong, Shoujie Li, Kit-Wa Sou +8
Conventional suction cups lack sensing capabilities for contact-aware manipulation in unstructured environments. This paper presents FlexiCup, a multimodal suction cup with wireles…
SocialNav-Map: Dynamic Mapping with Human Trajectory Prediction for Zero-Shot Social Navigation
Lingfeng Zhang, Erjia Xiao, Xiaoshuai Hao +7
Social navigation in densely populated dynamic environments poses a significant challenge for autonomous mobile robots, requiring advanced strategies for safe interaction. Existing…
Is your VLM Sky-Ready? A Comprehensive Spatial Intelligence Benchmark for UAV Navigation
Lingfeng Zhang, Yuchen Zhang, Hongsheng Li +7
Vision-Language Models (VLMs), leveraging their powerful visual perception and reasoning capabilities, have been widely applied in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) tasks. However, the…