17 papers
SAGE-Nav: Leveraging LLM Planning and Alignment Fusion for Hierarchical Scene Graph-Guided Navigation
Hao Su, Yuehao Huang, Yukai Ma +2
Object-Goal Navigation (ObjNav) requires embodied agents to autonomously locate specified targets using only egocentric visual observations. Existing monolithic methods struggle wi…
DriveStack-VLA: Render-Teacher Alignment for BEV-Based DeepStack Vision-Language-Action Model
Jingke Wang, Zhenru Zhao, Shuangming Lei +8
Vision-Language-Action driving models convert a pretrained Vision-Language Model into a driving policy, allowing them to use world knowledge and follow language guidances. However,…
SparseWorld: Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving via World Models with Sparse Scene Representation
Ruoyu Wang, Jingke Wang, Yukai Ma +5
Recently, world models have made significant progress in enhancing end-to-end driving systems through both future situation forecasting and improved scene understanding. However, e…
Slow Brain, Fast Planner: Latency-Resilient VLM-Augmented Urban Navigation
Zhenghao "Mark'' Peng, Honglin He, Quanyi Li +2
Learning-based planners for sidewalk navigation can generate diverse candidate trajectories in real time, yet their scoring functions often fail to select the best trajectory in ch…
Monocular 3D Occupancy Perception for Robots on Sidewalks via Hybrid 2D-3D Learning
Yukai Ma, Joe Lin, Liu Liu +5
Sidewalks in the real world are crowded, cluttered, and less structured than roads, making 3D occupancy prediction a key ingredient for the safe navigation of mobile robots such as…
From Imitation to Alignment: Human-Preference Flow Policies for Long-Horizon Sidewalk Navigation
Honglin He, Zhizheng Liu, Yukai Ma +1
Autonomous long-horizon sidewalk navigation is essential for micro-mobility applications such as robotic food delivery and assistive electronic wheelchairs. Unlike autonomous drivi…