3 papers
cs.RO2026
DRIVE-Nav: Directional Reasoning, Inspection, and Verification for Efficient Open-Vocabulary Navigation
Maoguo Gao, Zejun Zhu, Zhiming Sun +6
Open-Vocabulary Object Navigation (OVON) requires an embodied agent to locate a language-specified target in unknown environments. Many zero-shot methods rely on frontier-candidate…
cs.RO2026
MosaicIMU: Composing Carrier Experts for Generalizable Neural Inertial Odometry
Junye Zou, Huiyi Yan, Xinning Xu +4
Robust inertial odometry is essential for various carriers when external sensing is unreliable. Learning-based methods reduce integration drift by capturing local motion priors, bu…
cs.RO2026
Towards Lifelong Aerial Autonomy: Geometric Memory Management for Continual Visual Place Recognition in Dynamic Environments
Xingyu Shao, Zhiqiang Yan, Liangzheng Sun +5
Robust geo-localization in changing environmental conditions is critical for long-term aerial autonomy. While visual place recognition (VPR) models perform well when airborne views…