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A Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Policy with Progress-Aware Hybrid Execution for UAV Waypoint Navigation in AirSim.

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Τίτλος: A Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Policy with Progress-Aware Hybrid Execution for UAV Waypoint Navigation in AirSim.
Συγγραφείς: Xu, Yiqing1 (AUTHOR) yiqingxu@niit.edu.cn, Lin, Haifeng2 (AUTHOR), Yang, Yujin3 (AUTHOR), Xia, Ji'An1,4 (AUTHOR), Han, Zidong1,4 (AUTHOR)
Πηγή: Sensors (14248220). Jul2026, Vol. 26 Issue 14, p4655. 31p.
Θεματικοί όροι: *Flight simulators, *Flight control systems, *Aeronautical navigation, *Robot control systems
Περίληψη: Offline action prediction does not by itself guarantee reliable closed-loop flight for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) vision-language-action (VLA) models. We study a controlled AirSim Blocks waypoint task using 100 expert episodes and 3385 RGB-D, instruction, state, and action records. Checkpoints are selected only on val-seen data, after which val-unseen is evaluated once. A 132,840-parameter policy reaches 0.9278 ± 0.0019 final-test action accuracy across three training seeds, yet raw VLA control fails in closed loop. We therefore embed its action proposals in progress-aware hybrid execution with explicit recovery and near-goal precision. The strongest checkpoint reaches 59/60 goals, but crossing three independently trained checkpoints with three target seeds yields a more conservative 147/180 successes (81.7%) with zero recorded collisions and marked checkpoint sensitivity. Substantial overrides and fallback-tagged steps further show that the reported closed-loop outcomes are properties of the hybrid system, not of the learned policy alone. These findings are restricted to the controlled AirSim Blocks benchmark and do not demonstrate real-UAV deployment, sim-to-real transfer, or field robustness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Βάση Δεδομένων: Academic Search Index
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ISSN:14248220
DOI:10.3390/s26144655