OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research is 10. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	333
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	191
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning	149
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	113
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping	105
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	99
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	93
Fault-tolerant decentralized multi-sensor link velocity and acceleration estimation for elastic-joint robots	84
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	75
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	53
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	50
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation	48
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	46
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand	43
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	42
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	40
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	40
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	39
Tactile robotics: Past and future	39
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	38
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	38
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	36
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	35
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	35
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	34

Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	34
Design of supernumerary robotic limbs for the augmentation of astronauts performing partial-gravity extra-vehicular activities (EVAs)	34
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	33
Morphological symmetries in robotics	33
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	33
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	32
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	31
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	29
Hierarchical task decomposition for execution monitoring and error recovery: Understanding the rationale behind task demonstrations	29
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	28
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	27
Multiscale deformable objects manipulation via wavelet-decomposed boundary element method	26
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback	26
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	26
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	25
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	25
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	24
Active 6D pose estimation for textureless objects using multi-view RGB frames	24
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	24
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	23
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	23
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	22
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	21
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	20
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	20
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	19
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	18
Sampling-based constrained motion planning with products of experts	18
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	18
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	18
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	18
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	18
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	17
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	17
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state	16
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	16
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	16
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	16
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	16
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	16
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	15
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	15
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots	15
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	14
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	14
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	14
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	14
Adaptive planning for assistive-care robotic missions	13
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements	13
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	13

Selected papers from WAFR2020	13
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	13
Unified force-impedance control	13
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	13
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation	13
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset	12
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	12
Why we must trust ourselves	12
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration	12
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	12
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft	12
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	12
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.	12
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	11
Gravity-aware proactive joint-level compensation for portable soft slender robots using a single IMU and real-time simulation	11
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning	11
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	11
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks	11
Postural virtual fixtures for ergonomic physical interactions with supernumerary robotic bodies	11
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks	10
Imperative learning: A self-supervised neuro-symbolic learning framework for robot autonomy	10
Lane-level route planning for autonomous vehicles	10
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery	10
Asymptotically optimal inspection planning via efficient near-optimal search on sampled roadmaps	10
Action-conditional implicit visual dynamics for deformable object manipulation	10
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning	10
Electro-SLAM: Distributed underwater multi-robot SLAM via bio-inspired active and passive electro-sensing	10
Selected papers from ISRR'2019	10
Theoretical and experimental investigation of variable contact forces on the rollers of a mecanum wheeled mobile robot	10
Exceeding traditional curvature limits of concentric tube robots through redundancy resolution	10
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	10
RETRACTED: PiP-X: Online feedback motion planning/replanning in dynamic environments using invariant funnels	10