VLM-Nav: Mapless UAV navigation using monocular vision driven by vision-language models

• Gobinda Chandra Sarker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University at Albany, Albany, New York, United States of America, Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• AKM Azad,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Sejuti Rahman,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Department of Computer Science, New Uzbekistan University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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• Md Mehedi Hasan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mmhasan@du.ac.bd

  Affiliation Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4326-4332

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