2 papers
cs.RO2026
CovNav: Conformal Prediction-Guided Adaptive Inference for Object Goal Navigation
Pengying Wu, Zhejia Wen, Kang Ding +5
In object goal navigation (ObjectNav), an embodied agent must find a target object (e.g., "find a bed") in a previously unseen environment, relying on spatial commonsense such as o…
cs.RO2026
CoINS: Counterfactual Interactive Navigation via Skill-Aware VLM
Kangjie Zhou, Zhejia Wen, Zhiyong Zhuo +9
Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in robotic planning. However, they typically function as semantic reasoners, lacking an intrinsic under…