OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research is 8. 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.)

Article	Citations
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	158
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	152
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	123
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	110
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	78
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	58
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	52
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	46
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	45
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	44
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	43
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	41
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	40
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	37
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	35
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	35
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	32
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	31
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	30
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	29
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	27
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	27
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	27
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	25
Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	24

Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	22
Morphological symmetries in robotics	22
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	22
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	22
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages	21
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	21
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	20
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	20
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	20
A large-scale dataset for indoor visual localization with high-precision ground truth	20
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	19
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	18
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	18
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	18
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	18
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	17
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research	16
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	16
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	16
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	16
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	16
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	15
Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots	15
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	15
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state	15
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	15
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	14
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	13
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	13
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	13
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	13
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	13
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	13
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	13
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	12
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	12
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	12
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	12
Unified force-impedance control	12
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	12
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	12
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	11
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots	11
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	11
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	10
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	10
Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	10
Selected papers from WAFR2020	10
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	10
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	10

Special Issue on the Thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR) 2018	9
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	9
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	9
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation	9
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	9
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset	9
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	9
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image	8
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft	8
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning	8