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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation377
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint197
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions158
Fault-tolerant decentralized multi-sensor link velocity and acceleration estimation for elastic-joint robots118
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning107
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping102
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping96
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation85
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications76
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning57
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks54
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand50
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories50
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems44
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking43
Tactile robotics: Past and future42
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading41
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque40
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments40
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection40
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics36
Design of supernumerary robotic limbs for the augmentation of astronauts performing partial-gravity extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)36
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation36
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments36
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms35
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot34
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation34
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation34
Morphological symmetries in robotics33
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios33
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches33
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts30
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality30
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains30
Multiscale deformable objects manipulation via wavelet-decomposed boundary element method29
Hierarchical task decomposition for execution monitoring and error recovery: Understanding the rationale behind task demonstrations28
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation27
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements27
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments26
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback26
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees26
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects24
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist24
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations23
Autogenerated manipulation primitives23
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction22
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects22
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections21
Active 6D pose estimation for textureless objects using multi-view RGB frames21
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization20
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign19
K2MUSE: A human lower-limb multimodal walking dataset spanning task and acquisition variability for rehabilitation robotics19
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration19
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study18
Sampling-based constrained motion planning with products of experts18
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization18
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control18
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters17
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy17
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity17
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills16
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition16
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset16
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects16
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks16
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges16
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets15
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots15
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems15
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements15
Adaptive planning for assistive-care robotic missions15
Unified force-impedance control14
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots14
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach14
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning13
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots13
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning13
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots13
Selected papers from WAFR202013
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability13
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation13
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems13
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration12
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks12
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery12
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft12
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning12
Why we must trust ourselves12
Electro-SLAM: Distributed underwater multi-robot SLAM via bio-inspired active and passive electro-sensing11
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion11
Postural virtual fixtures for ergonomic physical interactions with supernumerary robotic bodies11
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line11
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset11
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games11
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot11
A ground robot dataset for multi-sensor navigation in diverse environments11
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning11
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.11
Gravity-aware proactive joint-level compensation for portable soft slender robots using a single IMU and real-time simulation11
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles11
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels10
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution10
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks10
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps10
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning10
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation10
Selected papers from ISRR'201910
Imperative learning: A self-supervised neuro-symbolic learning framework for robot autonomy10
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping9
Spatially-enhanced recurrent memory for long-range mapless navigation via end-to-end reinforcement learning9
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification9
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation9
Expanding autonomous ground vehicle navigation capabilities through a multi-model parameterized Koopman framework9
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM9
Selected papers from RSS20219
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning9
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems9
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment9
Deliberate planning of 3D bin packing on packing configuration trees9
Robotic estimation of single scuba diver respiration rate for safety in underwater human-robot collaboration8
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives8
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
Adaptive Koopman embedding for robust control of nonlinear dynamical systems8
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction8
Bayesian iterative closest point for mobile robot localization8
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance8
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC8
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic8
Control-oriented meta-learning8
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place7
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey7
Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation7
Corrigendum to “Enabling to learn for force sensing: A coupling-decoupling under-actuated gripper with multiple-DoFs”7
Autonomous robotic exploration of unknown soft objects7
A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control7
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation7
SNAIL radar: A large-scale diverse benchmark for evaluating 4D-radar-based SLAM7
The split-belt rimless wheel7
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock6
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment6
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction6
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments6
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed6
Screw impedance control for multi-contact interactions with hierarchically structured, bounded parameter matrices6
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds6
Locomotion and self-reconfiguration autonomy for spherical freeform modular robots6
Kiri-Spoon: A kirigami utensil for robot-assisted feeding6
Curating tunable, compliant legs for specialized tasks6
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control6
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design6
The Oxford Spires Dataset: Benchmarking large-scale LiDAR-visual localisation, reconstruction and radiance field methods6
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics6
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation6
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles6
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications5
Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot–environment interaction5
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators5
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing5
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space5
PneuGelSight: Soft robotic vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing5
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation5
Extended neural contractive dynamical systems: On multiple tasks and Riemannian safety regions5
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision5
A physically consistent stiffness formulation for contact-rich manipulation5
NeRFs in robotics: A survey5
IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning5
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks5
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization5
Selected papers from WAFR 20225
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch5
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map5
The Rosario dataset v2: Multi-modal dataset for agricultural robotics5
Perceive with confidence: Statistical safety assurances for navigation with learning-based perception5
Editorial5
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics5
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains5
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
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot4
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
Growable and interpretable neural control with online continual learning for autonomous lifelong locomotion learning machines4
Group- k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k -uniform hypergraphs for robust4
SVIn2: A multi-sensor fusion-based underwater SLAM system4
Wearable and grounded supernumerary robotic limbs for sensorimotor augmentation in post-stroke patients4
Design of a novel two-DOF robotic active vibration suppression system based on dynamic decoupling and pose-dependent dynamics4
ATOM: Design and development of a novel two-actuator hybrid land-air robot4
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration4
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots4
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers4
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs4
Caging in time: A framework for robust object manipulation under uncertainties and limited robot perception4
Variable stiffness for shared authority control in robotic walkers4
Adaptive Robotic Information Gathering via non-stationary Gaussian processes3
A sampling and learning framework to prove motion planning infeasibility3
Ergonomically optimized path-planning for industrial human–robot collaboration3
A flexible framework for accurate LiDAR odometry, map manipulation, and localization3
Tracking cloth deformation: A novel dataset for closing the sim-to-real gap for robotic cloth manipulation learning3
Active reward learning and iterative trajectory improvement from comparative language feedback3
Autonomous aerial manipulation at arbitrary pose in SE(3) with robust control and whole-body planning3
Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges3
Multilevel motion planning: A fiber bundle formulation3
Uncertainty-aware visually-attentive navigation using deep neural networks3
Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators3
Efficient and distributed large-scale point cloud bundle adjustment via majorization-minimization3
A survey of communicating robot learning during human-robot interaction3
TiFA: A terrain-informed navigation framework for articulated tracked robots in rescue missions3
Fundamental limits for sensor-based robot control3
A three degrees of freedom switchable impedance myoelectric prosthetic wrist3
The matroid team surviving orienteers problem and its variants: Constrained routing of heterogeneous teams with risky traversal3
Domains as objectives: Domain-uncertainty-aware policy optimization through explicit multi-domain convex coverage set learning3
FMimic: Foundation models are fine-grained action learners from human videos3
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment3
On-body textile hysteresis estimation for personalized physical human-robot interaction3
Toward certifiable optimal motion planning for medical steerable needles3
Designing standard library of manipulation skill-agents for Learning-from-Observation3
Motion planning for hybrid dynamical systems: Framework, algorithm template, and a sampling-based approach3
On the learning-based control of continuum robots with provable robustness, efficiency, and generalizability3
Quantifying mobile robot localization safety for an EKF-based SLAM estimator: An integrity monitoring approach3
Stiffness modelling and analysis of soft fluidic-driven robots using Lie theory3
A framework for collaborative multi-robot mapping using spectral graph wavelets3
Robust grasping across diverse sensor qualities: The GraspNet-1Billion dataset3
GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for robotics research with Isaac Sim3
Unidirectional virtual inerter for high-bandwidth robot motion control3
A mathematical characterization of minimally sufficient robot brains3
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
Can familiarization with a supernumerary robotic finger restore task-dependent cortico-autonomic coupling in first-time healthy users?3
MILUV: A Multi-UAV Indoor Localization dataset with UWB and Vision3
Expanded quasi-static models to predict the performance of robotic skins on soft cylinders3
A transhumeral prosthesis with an artificial neuromuscular system: Sim2real-guided design, modeling, and control3
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