FreeFly-Thinking : Aligning Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Continuous UAV Navigation

Jiaxu Zhou, Shaobo Wang, Zhiyuan Yang, Zhenjun Yu, Tao Li
3/7/2026
cs.CV

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Vision-Language Navigation aims to enable agents to understand natural language instructions and carry out appropriate navigation actions in real-world environments. Most work focuses on indoor settings, with little research in complex outdoor scenes. Current UAV Vision-and-Language Navigation models typically act as black boxes without explicit reasoning. We introduce FreeFly-thinking, an end-to-end VLN framework that converts the UAV agent's egocentric images and language instructions into a series of actions, inspired by environment of urban architecture proposed by OpenFly. We first construct a UAV dataset for navigation task, and then performing natural language chain of thought. We adopt a two-stage training strategy: Supervised fine-tuning and Reinforcement fine-tuning. Experiments on unseen test demonstrate a strong performance, presenting robustness and efficiency in UAV navigation issue.

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@article{zhou2026freeflythinking,
  title  = {FreeFly-Thinking : Aligning Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Continuous UAV Navigation},
  author = {Jiaxu Zhou and Shaobo Wang and Zhiyuan Yang and Zhenjun Yu and Tao Li},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.07181},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07181v1}
}

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