OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Robotics Research is 24. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	158
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	152
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	123
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	110
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	78
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	58
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	52
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	46
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	45
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	44
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	43
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	41
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	40
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	37
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	35
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	35
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	32
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	31
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	30
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	29
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	27
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	27
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	27
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	25
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	24