International Journal of Robotics Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Robotics Research is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation333
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions191
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning149
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping113
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping105
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks99
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications93
Fault-tolerant decentralized multi-sensor link velocity and acceleration estimation for elastic-joint robots84
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint75
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning53
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories50
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation48
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading46
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand43
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments42
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation40
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems40
Tactile robotics: Past and future39
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking39
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection38
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque38
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments36
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms35
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios35
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot34
Design of supernumerary robotic limbs for the augmentation of astronauts performing partial-gravity extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)34
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches34
Morphological symmetries in robotics33
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation33
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation33
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality32
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics31
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees29
Hierarchical task decomposition for execution monitoring and error recovery: Understanding the rationale behind task demonstrations29
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation28
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains27
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback26
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements26
Multiscale deformable objects manipulation via wavelet-decomposed boundary element method26
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts25
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments25
Active 6D pose estimation for textureless objects using multi-view RGB frames24
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization24
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist24
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction23
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations23
Autogenerated manipulation primitives22
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects21
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects20
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections20
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration19
Sampling-based constrained motion planning with products of experts18
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study18
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization18
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign18
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity18
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy18
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset17
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges17
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects16
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks16
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control16
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state16
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills16
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition15
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots15
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach15
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems14
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots14
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations14
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets14
Selected papers from WAFR202013
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning13
Unified force-impedance control13
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability13
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation13
Adaptive planning for assistive-care robotic missions13
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements13
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems13
Why we must trust ourselves12
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration12
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning12
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft12
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots12
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.12
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset12
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots12
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks11
Postural virtual fixtures for ergonomic physical interactions with supernumerary robotic bodies11
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning11
Gravity-aware proactive joint-level compensation for portable soft slender robots using a single IMU and real-time simulation11
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning11
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games11
Electro-SLAM: Distributed underwater multi-robot SLAM via bio-inspired active and passive electro-sensing10
Selected papers from ISRR'201910
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot10
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution10
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion10
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels10
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks10
Imperative learning: A self-supervised neuro-symbolic learning framework for robot autonomy10
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles10
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery10
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps10
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation10
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning10
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping9
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems9
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment9
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning9
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line9
Selected papers from RSS20219
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC9
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation9
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification9
Spatially-enhanced recurrent memory for long-range mapless navigation via end-to-end reinforcement learning8
Deliberate planning of 3D bin packing on packing configuration trees8
Adaptive Koopman embedding for robust control of nonlinear dynamical systems8
Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown soft objects8
Expanding autonomous ground vehicle navigation capabilities through a multi-model parameterized Koopman framework8
Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission8
Prime the search: Using large language models for guiding geometric task and motion planning by warm-starting tree search8
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM8
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives8
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic8
Bayesian iterative closest point for mobile robot localization7
Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation7
Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods7
SNAIL radar: A large-scale diverse benchmark for evaluating 4D-radar-based SLAM7
Control-oriented meta-learning7
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place7
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation7
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction7
Robotic estimation of single scuba diver respiration rate for safety in underwater human-robot collaboration7
Corrigendum to “Enabling to learn for force sensing: A coupling-decoupling under-actuated gripper with multiple-DoFs”7
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance7
A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control6
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction6
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds6
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design6
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation6
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment6
Curating tunable, compliant legs for specialized tasks6
The Oxford Spires Dataset: Benchmarking large-scale LiDAR-visual localisation, reconstruction and radiance field methods6
The split-belt rimless wheel6
Screw impedance control for multi-contact interactions with hierarchically structured, bounded parameter matrices6
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control6
Kiri-Spoon: A kirigami utensil for robot-assisted feeding6
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey6
Locomotion and self-reconfiguration autonomy for spherical freeform modular robots6
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock6
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles6
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators5
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space5
Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot–environment interaction5
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision5
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks5
Perceive with confidence: Statistical safety assurances for navigation with learning-based perception5
The Rosario dataset v2: Multi-modal dataset for agricultural robotics5
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics5
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications5
NeRFs in robotics: A survey5
Editorial5
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments5
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed5
A physically consistent stiffness formulation for contact-rich manipulation5
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map5
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing5
Selected papers from WAFR 20225
Understanding human activity with uncertainty measure for novelty in graph convolutional networks4
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization4
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch4
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot4
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers4
PneuGelSight: Soft robotic vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing4
SVIn2: A multi-sensor fusion-based underwater SLAM system4
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation4
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains4
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging4
Extended neural contractive dynamical systems: On multiple tasks and Riemannian safety regions4
Task-agnostic and interface-aware handling of unintended interface operation for robot arm teleoperation: Insights and case study evaluations by persons with spinal cord injury4
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields4
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark4
IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning4
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots4
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration4
Growable and interpretable neural control with online continual learning for autonomous lifelong locomotion learning machines4
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics4
Variable stiffness for shared authority control in robotic walkers3
Wearable and grounded supernumerary robotic limbs for sensorimotor augmentation in post-stroke patients3
Unidirectional virtual inerter for high-bandwidth robot motion control3
A framework for collaborative multi-robot mapping using spectral graph wavelets3
Efficient and distributed large-scale point cloud bundle adjustment via majorization-minimization3
Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges3
YUTO MMS: A comprehensive SLAM dataset for urban mobile mapping with tilted LiDAR and panoramic camera integration3
A sampling and learning framework to prove motion planning infeasibility3
Active reward learning and iterative trajectory improvement from comparative language feedback3
Stiffness modelling and analysis of soft fluidic-driven robots using Lie theory3
Multilevel motion planning: A fiber bundle formulation3
FMimic: Foundation models are fine-grained action learners from human videos3
Robust grasping across diverse sensor qualities: The GraspNet-1Billion dataset3
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs3
Design of a novel two-DOF robotic active vibration suppression system based on dynamic decoupling and pose-dependent dynamics3
Caging in time: A framework for robust object manipulation under uncertainties and limited robot perception3
Fundamental limits for sensor-based robot control3
On the learning-based control of continuum robots with provable robustness, efficiency, and generalizability3
A transhumeral prosthesis with an artificial neuromuscular system: Sim2real-guided design, modeling, and control3
A survey of communicating robot learning during human-robot interaction3
The matroid team surviving orienteers problem and its variants: Constrained routing of heterogeneous teams with risky traversal3
TiFA: A terrain-informed navigation framework for articulated tracked robots in rescue missions3
Tracking cloth deformation: A novel dataset for closing the sim-to-real gap for robotic cloth manipulation learning3
A flexible framework for accurate LiDAR odometry, map manipulation, and localization3
On-body textile hysteresis estimation for personalized physical human-robot interaction3
A mathematical characterization of minimally sufficient robot brains3
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment3
ATOM: Design and development of a novel two-actuator hybrid land-air robot3
Quantifying mobile robot localization safety for an EKF-based SLAM estimator: An integrity monitoring approach3
Autonomous aerial manipulation at arbitrary pose in SE(3) with robust control and whole-body planning3
Expanded quasi-static models to predict the performance of robotic skins on soft cylinders3
Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators3
Toward certifiable optimal motion planning for medical steerable needles3
Ergonomically optimized path-planning for industrial human–robot collaboration3
Motion planning for hybrid dynamical systems: Framework, algorithm template, and a sampling-based approach3
Domains as objectives: Domain-uncertainty-aware policy optimization through explicit multi-domain convex coverage set learning3
GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim3
Adaptive Robotic Information Gathering via non-stationary Gaussian processes3
A three degrees of freedom switchable impedance myoelectric prosthetic wrist3
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