arxivcs.RO2026-07-24
Offline Vision-Language Navigation with Geometric Goal Localization for Outdoor Environments
Ali Salmasi, Xianjia Yu, Tomi Westerlund
Foundation-model-based vision-language navigation (VLN) has advanced autonomous robot navigation by enabling robots to interpret natural-language instructions, identify semantic goals, and follow user-specified behavioral rules. However, existing VLN systems rely heavily on cloud…