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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
How to train your robot with deep reinforcement learning: lessons we have learned	291
Cable manipulation with a tactile-reactive gripper	119
Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs	114
Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions dataset	109
Towards 3D LiDAR-based semantic scene understanding of 3D point cloud sequences: The SemanticKITTI Dataset	77
NTU VIRAL: A visual-inertial-ranging-lidar dataset, from an aerial vehicle viewpoint	71
A hip–knee–ankle exoskeleton emulator for studying gait assistance	70
Hierarchical control of soft manipulators towards unstructured interactions	69
Design of multirotor aerial vehicles: A taxonomy based on input allocation	63
Dynamic movement primitives in robotics: A tutorial survey	45
Learning compositional models of robot skills for task and motion planning	42
Boreas: A multi-season autonomous driving dataset	40
Closed-loop control of soft continuum manipulators under tip follower actuation	37
Biologically inspired electrostatic artificial muscles for insect-sized robots	37
A modular, multi-arm concentric tube robot system with application to transnasal surgery for orbital tumors	33
Learning reward functions from diverse sources of human feedback: Optimally integrating demonstrations and preferences	32
ColoRadar: The direct 3D millimeter wave radar dataset	31
SVIn2: A multi-sensor fusion-based underwater SLAM system	31
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	31
Inverse optimal control from incomplete trajectory observations	30
Concept2Robot: Learning manipulation concepts from instructions and human demonstrations	29
GKNet: Grasp keypoint network for grasp candidates detection	28
Joint-level force sensing for indirect hybrid force/position control of continuum robots with friction	23
RadarSLAM: A robust simultaneous localization and mapping system for all weather conditions	22
Adaptively Informed Trees (AIT) and Effort Informed Trees (EIT): Asymmetric bidirectional sampling-based path planning	21

Interpreting and predicting tactile signals for the SynTouch BioTac	20
Coordination of lateral body bending and leg movements for sprawled posture quadrupedal locomotion	19
Frequency modulation of body waves to improve performance of sidewinding robots	19
Energy budgets for coordinate invariant robot control in physical human–robot interaction	18
Continuum robot state estimation using Gaussian process regression on SE(3)	18
Multi-fidelity black-box optimization for time-optimal quadrotor maneuvers	17
AIR-Act2Act: Human–human interaction dataset for teaching non-verbal social behaviors to robots	17
Force sensing in robot-assisted keyhole endoscopy: A systematic survey	16
Task space adaptation via the learning of gait controllers of magnetic soft millirobots	16
Provably constant-time planning and replanning for real-time grasping objects off a conveyor belt	16
Systematic object-invariant in-hand manipulation via reconfigurable underactuation: Introducing the RUTH gripper	15
Self-supervised learning for using overhead imagery as maps in outdoor range sensor localization	15
Representation, learning, and planning algorithms for geometric task and motion planning	15
The UMA-SAR Dataset: Multimodal data collection from a ground vehicle during outdoor disaster response training exercises	14
GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling	14
Contact-initiated shared control strategies for four-arm supernumerary manipulation with foot interfaces	13
Method for generating real-time interactive virtual fixture for shared teleoperation in unknown environments	13
Versatile articulated aerial robot DRAGON: Aerial manipulation and grasping by vectorable thrust control	13
Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods	13
Sniffing out fugitive methane emissions: autonomous remote gas inspection with a mobile robot	13
Passive and active acoustic sensing for soft pneumatic actuators	13
Enabling impedance-based physical human–multi–robot collaboration: Experiments with four torque-controlled manipulators	13
Inducing structure in reward learning by learning features	13
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	13
Learning from demonstration using products of experts: Applications to manipulation and task prioritization	12
Generation of synchronized configuration space trajectories with workspace path constraints for an ensemble of robots	12
HARMONIC: A multimodal dataset of assistive human–robot collaboration	12
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	12
Hybrid sparse monocular visual odometry with online photometric calibration	11
Robust feedback motion planning via contraction theory	11
Locally active globally stable dynamical systems: Theory, learning, and experiments	11
Tac2Pose: Tactile object pose estimation from the first touch	11
Shape-induced obstacle attraction and repulsion during dynamic locomotion	11
A bathymetric mapping and SLAM dataset with high-precision ground truth for marine robotics	10
Combining physics and deep learning to learn continuous-time dynamics models	10
Learning to solve sequential physical reasoning problems from a scene image	10
Physical interaction as communication: Learning robot objectives online from human corrections	10
Autonomous navigation of underactuated bipedal robots in height-constrained environments	9
Simplified decision making in the belief space using belief sparsification	9
Semi-infinite programming for trajectory optimization with non-convex obstacles	9
Eiffel Tower: A deep-sea underwater dataset for long-term visual localization	9
Quatro++: Robust global registration exploiting ground segmentation for loop closing in LiDAR SLAM	9
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	9
Reactive navigation in partially familiar planar environments using semantic perceptual feedback	8
Reactive task and motion planning for robust whole-body dynamic locomotion in constrained environments	8
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	8
Hamiltonian coordination primitives for decentralized multiagent navigation	8
Constrained stochastic optimal control with learned importance sampling: A path integral approach	8