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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications158
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation152
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration123
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping110
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories78
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning58
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint52
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks46
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions45
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems44
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking43
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque41
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading40
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection37
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey35
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration35
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation32
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments31
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios30
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches29
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation27
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments27
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms27
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation25
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality24
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot22
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts22
Morphological symmetries in robotics22
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics22
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees21
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages21
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth20
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains20
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation20
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements20
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects19
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments18
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction18
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization18
Autogenerated manipulation primitives18
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist17
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects16
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research16
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections16
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations16
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity16
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration15
Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots15
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy15
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state15
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control15
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset14
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks13
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects13
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign13
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges13
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters13
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills13
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization13
Unified force-impedance control12
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition12
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study12
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach12
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations12
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems12
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots12
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets11
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis11
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots11
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability10
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots10
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning10
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning10
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots10
Selected papers from WAFR202010
Special Issue on the Thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 20189
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion9
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems9
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation9
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning9
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset9
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games9
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image8
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft8
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning8
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line7
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels7
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps7
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot7
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery7
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation7
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation7
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution7
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration7
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks7
Selected papers from ISRR'20197
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles7
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC6
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM6
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping6
Sequential contact-based adaptive grasping for robotic hands6
Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission6
Selected papers from RSS20216
An efficient, modular controller for flapping flight composing model-based and model-free components6
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives6
GKNet: Grasp keypoint network for grasp candidates detection6
Adaptive Koopman embedding for robust control of nonlinear dynamical systems6
Self-supervised learning for using overhead imagery as maps in outdoor range sensor localization6
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification6
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems6
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning6
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment6
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic5
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place5
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance5
SNAIL radar: A large-scale diverse benchmark for evaluating 4D-radar-based SLAM5
Bayesian iterative closest point for mobile robot localization5
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation5
Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation5
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction5
A bathymetric mapping and SLAM dataset with high-precision ground truth for marine robotics5
Control-oriented meta-learning5
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation4
Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods4
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds4
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design4
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed4
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map4
Prime the search: Using large language models for guiding geometric task and motion planning by warm-starting tree search4
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock4
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles4
A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control4
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments4
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control4
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey4
The split-belt rimless wheel4
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction4
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment4
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space4
Inducing structure in reward learning by learning features3
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics3
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging3
Curating tunable, compliant legs for specialized tasks3
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators3
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch3
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment3
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers3
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot3
IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning3
Systematic object-invariant in-hand manipulation via reconfigurable underactuation: Introducing the RUTH gripper3
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains3
Selected papers from WAFR 20223
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics3
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing3
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision3
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields3
ColoRadar: The direct 3D millimeter wave radar dataset3
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration3
Editorial3
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots3
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization3
Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot–environment interaction3
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications3
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks3
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation3
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark3
Understanding human activity with uncertainty measure for novelty in graph convolutional networks3
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