AnchorVLN: 幾何学アンカー付き視覚言語グラウンディングによるオープンボキャブラリナビゲーション
AnchorVLN: Geometry-Anchored Vision-Language Grounding Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Navigation
VLMに意味推論を、幾何学計算に距離・方位などの計量推定を分担させるルールで、MCPサーバ経由のオープンボキャブラリ視覚言語ナビゲーションシステムを構築し、CMU VLNチャレンジ2026で有効性を示した。
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著者: Long Giang Vu, Chengkai Yao, Yuxin Liu, FNU Aryan, Rajath Chandrashekar Aralikatti
分類: cs.RO, cs.CV
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Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) in unseen indoor environments is useful in real-world robotics, where an agent must follow natural-language instructions, locate objects, and answer spatial questions without a pre-built map or fixed object vocabulary. Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) provide strong open-vocabulary grounding and zero-shot reasoning, but struggle to emit reliable metric quantities such as range, bearing, and comparative spatial relations directly from images. Existing approaches address this by folding geometry into hand-engineered pipelines or asking models to output waypoints, requiring changes to the control stack for different robots, tasks, or vocabularies. We introduce AnchorVLN, an open-vocabulary VLN system built on a simple rule: the VLM proposes semantics; geometry decides metrics. It is realised as EMBODIED-NAV-MCP, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server driven by a VLM agent through a compact set of callable tools. Since no tool accepts distance in metres or bearing in radians, the schema enforces the semantic-geometry boundary without modifying the downstream autonomy stack. We benchmark both tasks of the CMU Vision-Language Navigation Challenge 2026: 30 instruction-following questions over 15 scenes and a frozen 45-question object-reference set. The full system achieves 64.4 percent on instruction following, dropping by 13.3 percentage points without controller modeling (t = 2.77). On object reference, geometric anchoring clears the challenge overlap threshold on 10 of 45 questions, versus 0 of 45 for direct coordinate estimation, reducing median center error from 3.37 m to 2.48 m.