arxivcs.RO2026-07-17
SkillNav: Score-Level Skill Intervention for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation
Ruijie Sang, Yiqun Duan, Pinhan Fu, Ruilin Wang, Wei Sui, Xianda Guo
Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents have advanced zero-shot object-goal navigation, yet single-frame reasoning leaves them without the cross-step behavioral awareness an embodied navigator requires, producing recurring failures such as dead-end stalls, in-room loops, and circuitou…