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New benchmark and agent method advance air-ground cooperative object search

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Researchers have introduced AGOS-Bench, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the cooperative capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs) in air-ground object search scenarios. This benchmark, along with a companion dataset and an agentic method called AGOS-Agent, aims to facilitate research into tasks requiring coordination between unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). AGOS-Agent, which is training-free and tool-augmented, has demonstrated significant improvements in success rates and reduced decision steps for multiple VLMs, including notable gains for Gemini 3.6 Flash. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more sophisticated autonomous systems capable of complex, coordinated search and verification tasks in real-world environments.

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New benchmark and agent method advance air-ground cooperative object search

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Boao Yu, Zimo Chen, Junreng Rao, Yue Hu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Yong Zhao, Rusheng Ju ·

    Towards Embodied Air-Ground Cooperative Object Search: Benchmark, Dataset and Agentic Method

    arXiv:2609.08402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Air-Ground Object Search (AGOS) in urban environments is a challenging embodied task, which requires an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) to jointly search for and verify a specified target vehicle…

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