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MobileVLA-R1: Reinforcing Vision-Language-Action for Mobile Robots

arXiv 2511.17889 ↗First posted 22 Nov 2025cs.RO cs.CVcited by 15

On the map: Vision-language-action models → Reasoning and chain-of-thought in VLA

Abstract (arXiv)

Grounding natural-language instructions into continuous control for quadruped robots remains a fundamental challenge in vision language action. Existing methods struggle to bridge high-level semantic reasoning and low-level actuation, leading to unstable grounding and weak generalization in the real world. To address these issues, we present MobileVLA-R1, a unified vision-language-action framework that enables explicit reasoning and continuous control for quadruped robots. We construct MobileVLA-CoT, a large-scale dataset of multi-granularity chain-of-thought (CoT) for embodied trajectories, providing structured reasoning supervision for alignment. Built upon this foundation, we introduce a two-stage training paradigm that combines supervised CoT alignment with GRPO reinforcement learning to enhance reasoning consistency, control stability, and long-horizon execution. Extensive evaluations on VLN and VLA tasks demonstrate superior performance over strong baselines, with approximately a 5% improvement. Real-world deployment on a quadruped robot validates robust performance in complex environments. Code: https://github.com/AIGeeksGroup/MobileVLA-R1. Website: https://aigeeksgroup.github.io/MobileVLA-R1.

Key facts. Cited by 15 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Reasoning and chain-of-thought in VLA, one of 13 directions in Vision-language-action models. Builds on 68 of its 71 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 22 Nov 2025.

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  1. 2026LaMP: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policy with 3D Scene Flow as Latent Motion Priorcited by 11
  2. 2026TIC-VLA: A Think-in-Control Vision-Language-Action Model for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environmentscited by 8
  3. 2026MWM: Mobile World Models for Action-Conditioned Consistent Predictioncited by 7
  4. 2026Dual-Anchoring: Addressing State Drift in Vision-Language Navigationcited by 7
  5. 2025EgoLCD: Egocentric Video Generation with Long Context Diffusioncited by 5
  6. 2026AnyDepth: Depth Estimation Made Easycited by 4
  7. 20263D CoCa v2: Contrastive Learners with Test-Time Search for Generalizable Spatial Intelligencecited by 3
  8. 2026OpenWorldLib: A Unified Codebase and Definition of Advanced World Modelscited by 3
  9. 2026Think before Go: Hierarchical Reasoning for Image-goal Navigationcited by 2
  10. 2026SpaAct: Spatially-Activated Transition Learning with Curriculum Adaptation for Vision-Language Navigationcited by 2
  11. 2026ConsiSpace: Learning Geometric Consistency Matters for Video Spatial Reasoningcited by 1
  12. 2026MobileVLA-R1 2.0: RL-Enhanced Reasoning for Mobile Robot Controlcited by 1
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  2. 2026PlatonicNav: Unveiling Semantic Correspondence in Navigation with Platonic Topological Mapscited by 0
  3. 2026Exp2VLA: Enabling Vision-Language-Action for Drone Navigation from Expert Demonstrationscited by 0

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