International Journal of Robotics Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Robotics Research is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications150
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation142
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint113
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions95
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories76
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration63
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping51
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning46
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation42
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems42
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration41
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey36
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection35
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking33
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading29
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque27
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios26
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot25
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation25
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms24
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics24
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches24
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality23
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation23
Morphological symmetries in robotics22
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation22
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts22
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements21
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees20
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages20
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains20
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth20
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects20
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments19
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research19
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist19
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization18
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction18
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations18
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects17
Autogenerated manipulation primitives16
Task space adaptation via the learning of gait controllers of magnetic soft millirobots16
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections16
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state15
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity15
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign15
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization15
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration15
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks15
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset14
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects13
Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots13
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy13
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills13
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control13
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters12
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges12
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets12
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems11
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots11
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition11
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations11
Unified force-impedance control10
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots10
Selected papers from WAFR202010
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis10
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots10
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability10
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach10
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning10
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning10
Special Issue on the Thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 20189
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems9
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image9
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset9
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion8
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery8
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games8
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft8
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning8
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line7
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks7
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning7
Self-supervised learning for using overhead imagery as maps in outdoor range sensor localization6
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation6
Provably constant-time planning and replanning for real-time grasping objects off a conveyor belt6
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution6
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification6
Selected papers from ISRR'20196
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot6
Contact-initiated shared control strategies for four-arm supernumerary manipulation with foot interfaces6
An efficient, modular controller for flapping flight composing model-based and model-free components6
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels6
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps6
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation6
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles6
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems5
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment5
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning5
Selected papers from RSS20215
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping5
Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission5
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives5
Sequential contact-based adaptive grasping for robotic hands5
Control-oriented meta-learning4
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM4
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place4
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction4
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey4
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds4
A bathymetric mapping and SLAM dataset with high-precision ground truth for marine robotics4
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC4
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation4
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance4
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment4
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock4
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation4
GKNet: Grasp keypoint network for grasp candidates detection4
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic4
Bayesian iterative closest point for mobile robot localization4
Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods4
The split-belt rimless wheel4
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction4
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics3
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields3
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map3
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks3
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control3
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design3
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications3
ColoRadar: The direct 3D millimeter wave radar dataset3
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains3
Systematic object-invariant in-hand manipulation via reconfigurable underactuation: Introducing the RUTH gripper3
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging3
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed3
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision3
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators3
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing3
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark3
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots3
Editorial3
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization3
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation3
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics3
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments3
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles3
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space3
Selected papers from WAFR 20223
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch3
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration2
A survey of communicating robot learning during human-robot interaction2
A flexible framework for accurate LiDAR odometry, map manipulation, and localization2
A sampling and learning framework to prove motion planning infeasibility2
A mathematical characterization of minimally sufficient robot brains2
Understanding human activity with uncertainty measure for novelty in graph convolutional networks2
GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling2
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment2
Toward certifiable optimal motion planning for medical steerable needles2
Tracking cloth deformation: A novel dataset for closing the sim-to-real gap for robotic cloth manipulation learning2
Motion planning for hybrid dynamical systems: Framework, algorithm template, and a sampling-based approach2
Transfer learning in robotics: An upcoming breakthrough? A review of promises and challenges2
SVIn2: A multi-sensor fusion-based underwater SLAM system2
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs2
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers2
Multilevel motion planning: A fiber bundle formulation2
Ergonomically optimized path-planning for industrial human–robot collaboration2
Stiffness modelling and analysis of soft fluidic-driven robots using Lie theory2
Fundamental limits for sensor-based robot control2
A framework for collaborative multi-robot mapping using spectral graph wavelets2
Quantifying mobile robot localization safety for an EKF-based SLAM estimator: An integrity monitoring approach2
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot2
Inducing structure in reward learning by learning features2
A three degrees of freedom switchable impedance myoelectric prosthetic wrist2
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