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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping184
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions139
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint138
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration134
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation94
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation73
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping70
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications63
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks58
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning56
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories54
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments51
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque51
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading49
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration40
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems36
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation36
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking35
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey35
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection33
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments31
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation31
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms30
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches28
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios28
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation27
Morphological symmetries in robotics26
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics26
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot26
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality25
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation25
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements24
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages23
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts23
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains22
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees22
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback22
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations21
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments21
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects20
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist20
Autogenerated manipulation primitives20
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research19
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections19
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction18
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects18
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state17
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control17
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization17
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign17
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization16
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks16
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity16
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters16
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study16
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset15
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration15
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects15
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy15
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges14
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition14
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems14
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach14
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets13
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots13
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots13
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements13
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis13
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations12
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems12
Unified force-impedance control12
Selected papers from WAFR202012
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation11
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability11
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning11
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots11
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning11
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots11
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks10
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration10
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning10
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.10
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games10
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset10
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery9
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning9
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles9
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion9
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image9
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft9
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation8
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks8
Selected papers from ISRR'20198
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning8
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line8
Imperative learning: A self-supervised neuro-symbolic learning framework for robot autonomy8
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps8
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels7
A structured prediction approach for robot imitation learning7
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot7
An actuator space optimal kinematic path tracking framework for tendon-driven continuum robots: Theory, algorithm and validation7
Distributed misbehavior monitors for socially organized autonomous systems7
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution7
Selected papers from RSS20217
No compromise in solution quality: Speeding up belief-dependent continuous partially observable Markov decision processes via adaptive multilevel simplification6
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM6
Minimal configuration point cloud odometry and mapping6
DABA: Decentralized and accelerated large-scale bundle adjustment6
Prime the search: Using large language models for guiding geometric task and motion planning by warm-starting tree search6
Robotic drilling for the Chinese Chang’E 5 lunar sample-return mission6
Reactive collision-free motion generation in joint space via dynamical systems and sampling-based MPC6
Adaptive Koopman embedding for robust control of nonlinear dynamical systems6
Deliberate planning of 3D bin packing on packing configuration trees6
An efficient, modular controller for flapping flight composing model-based and model-free components6
Sequential contact-based adaptive grasping for robotic hands6
GKNet: Grasp keypoint network for grasp candidates detection6
Learning-based legged locomotion: State of the art and future perspectives6
Robust contact-rich manipulation through implicit motor adaptation6
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments5
The split-belt rimless wheel5
Decoding modular reconfigurable robots: A survey on mechanisms and design5
SNAIL radar: A large-scale diverse benchmark for evaluating 4D-radar-based SLAM5
Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods5
Formalizing and evaluating requirements of perception systems for automated vehicles using spatio-temporal perception logic5
The Oxford Spires Dataset: Benchmarking large-scale LiDAR-visual localisation, reconstruction and radiance field methods5
Reactive optimal motion planning to anywhere in the presence of moving obstacles5
The Rosario dataset v2: Multi-modal dataset for agricultural robotics5
The Before, During, and After of Multi-robot Deadlock5
Robot learning on the job: Human-in-the-loop autonomy and learning during deployment5
A novel electromagnetic variable stiffness actuator for robotic grinding: Design, modeling, optimization, and control5
Constraint-consistent task-oriented whole-body robot formulation: Task, posture, constraints, multiple contacts, and balance5
Compliance while resisting: A shear-thickening fluid controller for physical human-robot interaction5
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey5
THÖR-MAGNI: A large-scale indoor motion capture recording of human movement and robot interaction5
Shared visuo-tactile interactive perception for robust object pose estimation5
Under-canopy dataset for advancing simultaneous localization and mapping in agricultural robotics5
Leveraging symmetries in pick and place5
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control5
Locomotion and self-reconfiguration autonomy for spherical freeform modular robots5
Multi-visual-inertial system: Analysis, calibration, and estimation5
Bayesian iterative closest point for mobile robot localization5
Stabilizing deep Q-learning with Q-graph-based bounds5
Control-oriented meta-learning5
Certifiably optimal rotation and pose estimation based on the Cayley map5
Scenario-based motion planning with bounded probability of collision4
Curating tunable, compliant legs for specialized tasks4
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators4
Hybrid trajectory planning of two permanent magnets for medical robotic applications4
NeRFs in robotics: A survey4
Certified polyhedral decompositions of collision-free configuration space4
Learning to control a soft robotic manipulator under uncertainty and unforeseen changes in robot–environment interaction4
Pose-and-shear-based tactile servoing4
Supervised learning and reinforcement learning of feedback models for reactive behaviors: Tactile feedback testbed4
RoboCraft: Learning to see, simulate, and shape elasto-plastic objects in 3D with graph networks4
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch3
Inducing structure in reward learning by learning features3
RflyMAD: A dataset for multicopter fault detection and health assessment3
Bayesian controller fusion: Leveraging control priors in deep reinforcement learning for robotics3
Editorial3
Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging3
PneuGelSight: Soft robotic vision-based proprioception and tactile sensing3
ATOM: Design and development of a novel two-actuator hybrid land-air robot3
Understanding human activity with uncertainty measure for novelty in graph convolutional networks3
On-manifold probabilistic Iterative Closest Point: Application to underwater karst exploration3
Extended neural contractive dynamical systems: On multiple tasks and Riemannian safety regions3
Selected papers from WAFR 20223
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization3
Semantic constraints to represent common sense required in household actions for multimodal learning-from-observation robot3
Adaptive Discretization using Voronoi Trees for Continuous POMDPs3
Alternating direction method of multipliers-based distributed control for distributed manipulation by shaping physical force fields3
Machine learning for shipwreck segmentation from side scan sonar imagery: Dataset and benchmark3
Unidirectional virtual inerter for high-bandwidth robot motion control3
Kernel-based diffusion approximated Markov decision processes for autonomous navigation and control on unstructured terrains3
IMA-catcher: An IMpact-aware nonprehensile catching framework based on combined optimization and learning3
Mixed strategy Nash equilibrium for crowd navigation3
Physics-informed robotic airflow exploration and mapping with a swarm of mobile robots3
Energy-optimal trajectories for skid-steer rovers3
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