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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
A modular, multi-arm concentric tube robot system with application to transnasal surgery for orbital tumors140
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation128
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots98
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles85
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation74
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control69
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment57
Nonlinear model predictive dynamic positioning of a remotely operated vehicle with wave disturbance preview45
Selected papers from RSS202241
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint40
Combining physics and deep learning to learn continuous-time dynamics models40
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications39
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition37
The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises36
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories36
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration34
Active preference-based Gaussian process regression for reward learning and optimization33
A transhumeral prosthesis with an artificial neuromuscular system: Sim2real-guided design, modeling, and control33
Motion planning by learning the solution manifold in trajectory optimization30
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems29
Semantically controllable augmentations for generalizable robot learning24
SACBP: Belief space planning for continuous-time dynamical systems via stochastic sequential action control23
Biologically inspired electrostatic artificial muscles for insect-sized robots22
Investigating strategies enabling novice users to teach plannable hierarchical tasks to robots21
FusionPortableV2: A unified multi-sensor dataset for generalized SLAM across diverse platforms and scalable environments20
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning20
Constrained stochastic optimal control with learned importance sampling: A path integral approach19
Scaling effects of manufacturing processes and actuation sources on control of remotely powered micro actuators19
Real-time recognition of team behaviors by multisensory graph-embedded robot learning19
USTC FLICAR: A sensors fusion dataset of LiDAR-inertial-camera for heavy-duty autonomous aerial work robots19
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping18
RoBUTCHER: A novel robotic meat factory cell platform18
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis18
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds18
The split-belt rimless wheel17
Unified force-impedance control17
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction16
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock15
Optimizing contact patterns for robot locomotion via geometric mechanics15
Expanded quasi-static models to predict the performance of robotic skins on soft cylinders15
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets15
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design14
Time-optimal ergodic search: Multiscale coverage in minimum time14
Nonverbal social behavior generation for social robots using end-to-end learning14
The matroid team surviving orienteers problem and its variants: Constrained routing of heterogeneous teams with risky traversal14
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach14
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations13
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics13
Closed-loop control of soft continuum manipulators under tip follower actuation13
Modelify: An approach to incrementally build 3D object models for map completion13
A bearing-angle approach for unknown target motion analysis based on visual measurements12
Supervised Bayesian specification inference from demonstrations12
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration12
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems12
Learning reward functions from diverse sources of human feedback: Optimally integrating demonstrations and preferences11
Sim-to-real transfer of adaptive control parameters for AUV stabilisation under current disturbance10
Physical interaction as communication: Learning robot objectives online from human corrections10
Locally active globally stable dynamical systems: Theory, learning, and experiments10
TRansPose: Large-scale multispectral dataset for transparent object10
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications10
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking10
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection10
Learning dexterity from human hand motion in internet videos10
DUEL: Depth visUal Ego-motion Learning for autonomous robot obstacle avoidance9
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators9
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems9
Continuum robot state estimation using Gaussian process regression on SE(3)9
Model-predictive optimal control of ferrofluidic microrobots in three-dimensional space9
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots9
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading9
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque9
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey9
Inverse optimal control from incomplete trajectory observations8
Retraction Notice8
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots8
ASIMO: Agent-centric scene representation in multi-object manipulation8
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space7
Dataset and Benchmark: Novel Sensors for Autonomous Vehicle Perception7
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks7
Rubik Tables and object rearrangement7
Hybrid sparse monocular visual odometry with online photometric calibration7
Continuum concentric push–pull robots: A Cosserat rod model6
A Koopman-based residual modeling approach for the control of a soft robot arm6
Shape-induced obstacle attraction and repulsion during dynamic locomotion6
A wireless signal-based sensing framework for robotics6
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing6
SAM-RL: Sensing-aware model-based reinforcement learning via differentiable physics-based simulation and rendering5
Kernel-GPA: A globally optimal solution to deformable SLAM in closed-form5
Adaptively Informed Trees (AIT*) and Effort Informed Trees (EIT*): Asymmetric bidirectional sampling-based path planning5
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning5
Convex risk-bounded continuous-time trajectory planning and tube design in uncertain nonconvex environments5
Uncertainty-aware visually-attentive navigation using deep neural networks5
Selected papers from WAFR20205
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning5
Generalizable whole-body global manipulation of deformable linear objects by dual-arm robot in 3-D constrained environments4
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation4
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms4
Selected papers from WAFR 20224
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments4
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map4
Energy budgets for coordinate invariant robot control in physical human–robot interaction4
Stable nullspace adaptive parameter identification of 6 degree-of-freedom plant and actuator models for underactuated vehicles: Theory and experimental evaluation4
ViF-GTAD: A new automotive dataset with ground truth for ADAS/AD development, testing, and validation4
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed4
Design of multirotor aerial vehicles: A taxonomy based on input allocation4
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality4
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization4
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion3
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging3
Impact-aware task-space quadratic-programming control3
Special Issue on the Thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 20183
Planning to chronicle: Optimal policies for narrative observation of unpredictable events3
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch3
Reinforcement learning for versatile, dynamic, and robust bipedal locomotion control3
Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs3
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning3
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches3
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics3
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games3
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset3
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields3
Editorial3
Reactive navigation in partially familiar planar environments using semantic perceptual feedback3
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation3
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics3
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery3
Modal-graph 3D shape servoing of deformable objects with raw point clouds3
WildScenes: A benchmark for 2D and 3D semantic segmentation in large-scale natural environments3
Active perception network for non-myopic online exploration and visual surface coverage3
Provably constant-time planning and replanning for real-time grasping objects off a conveyor belt2
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps2
Design and implementation of an underactuated gripper with enhanced shape adaptability and lateral stiffness through semi-active multi-degree-of-freedom endoskeletons2
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft2
Robust feedback motion planning via contraction theory2
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains2
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation2
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning2
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark2
Non-linearity Measure for POMDP-based Motion Planning2
Towards 3D LiDAR-based semantic scene understanding of 3D point cloud sequences: The SemanticKITTI Dataset2
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth2
Learning from demonstration using products of experts: Applications to manipulation and task prioritization2
NTU VIRAL: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint2
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 20202
Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion2
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios2
Simplified decision making in the belief space using belief sparsification2
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image2
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels2
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles2
Sequential robot imitation learning from observations2
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration2
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts2
Reduced order modeling of hybrid soft-rigid robots using global, local, and state-dependent strain parameterization2
BiCap: A novel bi-modal dataset of daily living dual-arm manipulation actions2
Systematic object-invariant in-hand manipulation via reconfigurable underactuation: Introducing the RUTH gripper2
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation2
Morphological symmetries in robotics2
Soft modularized robotic arm for safe human–robot interaction based on visual and proprioceptive feedback2
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