OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Robotics Research is 37. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning human activities and object affordances from RGB-D videos	445
Model-Based Recognition and Localization from Sparse Range or Tactile Data	413
Learning dexterous in-hand manipulation	395
Extracting Places and Activities from GPS Traces Using Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields	285
Contact Sensing from Force Measurements	219
Surface Structure and Three-Dimensional Motion from Image Flow Kinematics	154
Robot learning from demonstration by constructing skill trees	149
From caging to grasping	149
Planning and Implementing Trajectories for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles to Track Evolving Ocean Processes Based on Predictions from a Regional Ocean Model	141
Learning robust, real-time, reactive robotic grasping	130
Real-time dynamics of soft and continuum robots based on Cosserat rod models	130
Robot Hand-Eye Calibration Using Structure-from-Motion	117
Learning grounded finite-state representations from unstructured demonstrations	110
Learning from Observation Paradigm: Leg Task Models for Enabling a Biped Humanoid Robot to Imitate Human Dances	106
SE-Sync: A certifiably correct algorithm for synchronization over the special Euclidean group	105
Estimation of Angular Velocity and Acceleration from Shaft-Encoder Measurements	104
Complex urban dataset with multi-level sensors from highly diverse urban environments	99
Kinematic Design of Serial Link Manipulators From Task Specifications	97
Landing, perching and taking off from vertical surfaces	92
Closure and Quality Equivalence for Efficient Synthesis of Grasps from Examples	89
Motion Estimation from Image and Inertial Measurements	87
Shared autonomy via hindsight optimization for teleoperation and teaming	85
Learning from Demonstration for Autonomous Navigation in Complex Unstructured Terrain	83
Reconstructing the Shape of a Deformable Membrane from Image Data	82
Kernelized movement primitives	81

SegMap: Segment-based mapping and localization using data-driven descriptors	78
6D interaction control with aerial robots: The flying end-effector paradigm	74
A variable admittance control strategy for stable physical human–robot interaction	74
Visual Servoing from Lines	71
Geometric constraint-based modeling and analysis of a novel continuum robot with Shape Memory Alloy initiated variable stiffness	71
Dec-MCTS: Decentralized planning for multi-robot active perception	69
From Robots to Animals: Virtual Fences for Controlling Cattle	65
A Fast Stereo-based System for Detecting and Tracking Pedestrians from a Moving Vehicle	65
Towards High-resolution Imaging from Underwater Vehicles	64
Fast loop-closure detection using visual-word-vectors from image sequences	63
Person-following by autonomous robots: A categorical overview	55
Human movement and ergonomics: An industry-oriented dataset for collaborative robotics	53
Learning task-oriented grasping for tool manipulation from simulated self-supervision	53
Communicating and controlling robot arm motion intent through mixed-reality head-mounted displays	51
Learning to close loops from range data	50
A Semi-Autonomous Robot for Stripping Paint from Large Vessels	50
Mapping Partially Observable Features from Multiple Uncertain Vantage Points	49
Tendon-driven continuum robots with extensible sections—A model-based evaluation of path-following motions	44
BWIBots: A platform for bridging the gap between AI and human–robot interaction research	44
Imitation learning for agile autonomous driving	44
The Interpretation of Phase and Intensity Data from AMCW Light Detection Sensors for Reliable Ranging	43
AQUALOC: An underwater dataset for visual–inertial–pressure localization	40
Localization from semantic observations via the matrix permanent	40
Shape from Diameter	39
A High-rate, Heterogeneous Data Set From The DARPA Urban Challenge	39
Closed-form preintegration methods for graph-based visual–inertial navigation	39
Nonlinear ego-motion estimation from optical flow for online control of a quadrotor UAV	39
Exploring implicit spaces for constrained sampling-based planning	38
Kimera: From SLAM to spatial perception with 3D dynamic scene graphs	37
Inverse KKT: Learning cost functions of manipulation tasks from demonstrations	37
Sensor-based reactive navigation in unknown convex sphere worlds	37
Simple Robots with Minimal Sensing: From Local Visibility to Global Geometry	37
A BCMP network approach to modeling and controlling autonomous mobility-on-demand systems	37