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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping217
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications163
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions105
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation100
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping83
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks80
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning75
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation63
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint62
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration62
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories61
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning57
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque44
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments43
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand42
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading42
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation38
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems36
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection34
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking33
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot32
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation32
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation31
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms30
Morphological symmetries in robotics28
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality28
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches27
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics27
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments26
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation25
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback25
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios25
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements25
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages24
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees24
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains24
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts24
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects22
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research22
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments22
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects21
Autogenerated manipulation primitives21
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist21
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations20
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction20
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections20
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization20
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study19
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity19
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state19
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy19
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign18
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters17
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset17
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration17
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization17
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control16
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks16
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills15
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects15
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition15
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements14
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots14
Unified force-impedance control13
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach13
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets13
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations13
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots13
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis13
Selected papers from WAFR202012
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability12
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems12
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation12
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots11
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.11
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery11
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks11
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration11
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning11
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems11
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion11
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning11
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots11
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning11
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning11
Selected papers from ISRR'201910
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks10
Why we must trust ourselves10
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games10
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning10
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line10
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft10
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset10
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles9
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels9
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps9
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot9
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution9
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation9
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation9
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems8
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification8
Adaptive Koopman embedding for robust control of nonlinear dynamical systems8
Selected papers from RSS20218
Sequential contact-based adaptive grasping for robotic hands8
Imperative learning: A self-supervised neuro-symbolic learning framework for robot autonomy8
An efficient, modular controller for flapping flight composing model-based and model-free components8
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment8
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM7
Prime the search: Using large language models for guiding geometric task and motion planning by warm-starting tree search7
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place7
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping7
Spatially-enhanced recurrent memory for long-range mapless navigation via end-to-end reinforcement learning7
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC7
Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation7
Control-oriented meta-learning7
Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission7
GKNet: Grasp keypoint network for grasp candidates detection7
Deliberate planning of 3D bin packing on packing configuration trees7
Bayesian iterative closest point for mobile robot localization7
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives7
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning7
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic6
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation6
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds6
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation6
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction6
Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods6
Locomotion and self-reconfiguration autonomy for spherical freeform modular robots6
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock6
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance6
SNAIL radar: A large-scale diverse benchmark for evaluating 4D-radar-based SLAM6
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey6
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles6
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control5
A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control5
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction5
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed5
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics5
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment5
The Oxford Spires Dataset: Benchmarking large-scale LiDAR-visual localisation, reconstruction and radiance field methods5
A physically consistent stiffness formulation for contact-rich manipulation5
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications5
Curating tunable, compliant legs for specialized tasks5
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design5
The Rosario dataset v2: Multi-modal dataset for agricultural robotics5
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map5
The split-belt rimless wheel5
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators4
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing4
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks4
Selected papers from WAFR 20224
Perceive with confidence: Statistical safety assurances for navigation with learning-based perception4
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark4
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments4
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space4
Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot–environment interaction4
Editorial4
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains4
PneuGelSight: Soft robotic vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing4
IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning4
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision4
Kiri-Spoon: A kirigami utensil for robot-assisted feeding4
NeRFs in robotics: A survey4
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields4
Extended neural contractive dynamical systems: On multiple tasks and Riemannian safety regions4
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization4
ATOM: Design and development of a novel two-actuator hybrid land-air robot3
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots3
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation3
A three degrees of freedom switchable impedance myoelectric prosthetic wrist3
On-body textile hysteresis estimation for personalized physical human-robot interaction3
SVIn2: A multi-sensor fusion-based underwater SLAM system3
A mathematical characterization of minimally sufficient robot brains3
Caging in time: A framework for robust object manipulation under uncertainties and limited robot perception3
A framework for collaborative multi-robot mapping using spectral graph wavelets3
FMimic: Foundation models are fine-grained action learners from human videos3
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs3
Task-agnostic and interface-aware handling of unintended interface operation for robot arm teleoperation: Insights and case study evaluations by persons with spinal cord injury3
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers3
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration3
GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim3
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging3
Quantifying mobile robot localization safety for an EKF-based SLAM estimator: An integrity monitoring approach3
Unidirectional virtual inerter for high-bandwidth robot motion control3
Growable and interpretable neural control with online continual learning for autonomous lifelong locomotion learning machines3
Fundamental limits for sensor-based robot control3
Active reward learning and iterative trajectory improvement from comparative language feedback3
ColoRadar: The direct 3D millimeter wave radar dataset3
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot3
Wearable and grounded supernumerary robotic limbs for sensorimotor augmentation in post-stroke patients3
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics3
Autonomous aerial manipulation at arbitrary pose in SE(3) with robust control and whole-body planning3
Domains as objectives: Domain-uncertainty-aware policy optimization through explicit multi-domain convex coverage set learning3
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch3
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment3
Understanding human activity with uncertainty measure for novelty in graph convolutional networks3
YUTO MMS: A comprehensive SLAM dataset for urban mobile mapping with tilted LiDAR and panoramic camera integration3
Multilevel motion planning: A fiber bundle formulation3
Tracking cloth deformation: A novel dataset for closing the sim-to-real gap for robotic cloth manipulation learning3
Inducing structure in reward learning by learning features3
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