objectnav

A curated list of zero-shot / training-free navigation research — auto-updated weekly. ObjectNav · VLN · Aerial VLN · Open-Vocabulary · Image-Goal, with venue tiers, code links and a searchable browser.

[IROS'26] Memory Over Maps: 3D Object Localization Without Reconstruction

Odin1-centered single-robot ObjectNav with VLM reasoning, semantic memory, TinyNav and real-robot deployment. Bilingual illustrated tutorials.

Re-evaluation of instruction-guided ObjectNav: simple frontier geometry matches or exceeds complex LLM-based navigation pipelines.

Object Navigation Task for Autonomous Robotic Systems (using Habitat simulator)

[RAL‘26] Stairway to Success: An Online Floor-Aware Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation Framework via LLM-Driven Coarse-to-Fine Exploration

PoliFormer: Scaling On-Policy RL with Transformers Results in Masterful Navigators

ZSON: Zero-Shot Object-Goal Navigation using Multimodal Goal Embeddings. NeurIPS 2022

PONI: Potential Functions for ObjectGoal Navigation with Interaction-free Learning. CVPR 2022 (Oral).

Zero Experience Required: Plug & Play Modular Transfer Learning for Semantic Visual Navigation. CVPR 2022

Evaluation tasks for ObjectNav models