OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Robotics Research is 25. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping	179
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	136
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	133
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	126
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	93
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	68
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	62
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	61
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	58
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	55
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	52
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	51
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	48
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	44
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	39
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	36
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	36
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	35
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	34
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	32
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	31
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	31
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	29
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	28
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	26

Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments