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Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object search involves a closed loop of perception, decision-making, and action under partial observability. Urban environments pose several challenges: large search areas and narrow egocentric views limit coverage, dense 3D geometry constrains safe motion, and open-world instru …
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We address the Person Goal Navigation (PersonNav) problem, enabling robots to search for people under realistic constraints on information accessibility and language uncertainty. This tackles the current solutions revolving around rigid person finding systems requiring exact knowledge of the individual for item-deliver …
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CityToolVQA addresses the weak performance of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on quantitative tasks in urban low-altitude visual question answering. We divide the seven tasks into qualitative and quantitative groups: qualitative questions are answered directly by the VLM, whereas quantitative questions are handled by an …