VoLN: Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation---Paradigm, Benchmark, and Method
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions. However, route-level instructions commonly encode spatial priors, such as orientation, distance, and layout, that are not explicitly available from onboard sensing at deployment in open, GPS-denied environments. Benchmark performance under such interfaces therefore jointly reflects visual navigation ability and the use of route structure explicitly supplied by the task description. As a complementary formulation, we propose Vision-Only Long-Horizon Navigation (VoLN), which shifts route-relevant information from externally supplied instructions and global guidance to locally observable in-...
| Authors | Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.RO |
| Published | 23 July 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 23 July 2026 |
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