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TEA-AgriVLN introduces a novel module that resolves ambiguity in agricultural navigation by estimating ground traversability before executing robot actions. This approach significantly improves success rates on the A2A benchmark, demonstrating how specialized AI models can adapt to complex outdoor environments where standard indoor assumptions fail. The work highlights critical advancements in robotic perception and decision-making for real-world farming applications.
TEA-AgriVLN: Traversability Estimation Alarm for Agricultural Vision-and-Language Navigation
arXiv:2607.28474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires an agent to follow a natural language instruction, predicting a sequence of low-level actions to navigate a robot from a starting point to a target location. The A2A benchmark and the AgriVLN method pioneeringly extended VLN-CE from indoor scenes to agricultural scenes, while we observed a challenging distinction: In indoor scenes, whether a zone is traversable tends to be clear to classify, such as wood floors are traversable but concrete walls are not. In agricultural scenes, however, this issue tends to be ambiguous, such as an unripe cornfield might be traversable for a robotic dog but might be non-traversable for a human. To address this issue, we propose the TEA module, which estimates the traversability of the camera image, then alarm the decision-maker for rethinking when the predicted action does not align with the traversability map. We integrate it into the AgriVLN backbone to build our TEA-AgriVLN method. When evaluated on A2A, it improves Success Rate (SR) from 0.47 to 0.54 and Navigation Error (NE) from 2.91 m to 2.70 m, showing the state-of-the-art performance in the agricultural VLN-CE domain. We further implement the ablation studies and the case study, discussing the effectiveness and limitations of TEA on different ground categories and scene classes. Code: https://github.com/AlexTraveling/TEA-AgriVLN.
Abstract:Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) requires an agent to follow a natural language instruction, predicting a sequence of low-level actions to navigate a robot from a starting point to a target location. The A2A benchmark and the AgriVLN method pioneeringly extended VLN-CE from indoor scenes to agricultural scenes, while we observed a challenging distinction: In indoor scenes, whether a zone is traversable tends to be clear to classify, such as wood floors are traversable but concrete walls are not. In agricultural scenes, however, this issue tends to be ambiguous, such as an unripe cornfield might be traversable for a robotic dog but might be non-traversable for a human. To address this issue, we propose the TEA module, which estimates the traversability of the camera image, then alarm the decision-maker for rethinking when the predicted action does not align with the traversability map. We integrate it into the AgriVLN backbone to build our TEA-AgriVLN method. When evaluated on A2A, it improves Success Rate (SR) from 0.47 to 0.54 and Navigation Error (NE) from 2.91 m to 2.70 m, showing the state-of-the-art performance in the agricultural VLN-CE domain. We further implement the ablation studies and the case study, discussing the effectiveness and limitations of TEA on different ground categories and scene classes. Code: this https URL.
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2607.28474 [cs.RO]
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