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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-equivariant embedding for long-term object-based simultaneous localization and mapping	217
Minimizing running buffers for tabletop object rearrangement: Complexity, fast algorithms, and applications	163
MultiSCOPE: Disambiguating in-hand object poses with proprioception and sequential interactions	105
MOB-Net: Limb-modularized uncertainty torque learning of humanoids for sensorless external torque estimation	100
MUN-FRL: A Visual-Inertial-LiDAR Dataset for Aerial Autonomous Navigation and Mapping	83
A center-less quadrotor design with a soft enveloping grasper for aerial grasping and delivery tasks	80
Fully differentiable sensor placement and informative path planning	75
Open scene graphs for open-world object-goal navigation	63
AURORA, a multi-sensor dataset for robotic ocean exploration	62
CID-SIMS: Complex indoor dataset with semantic information and multi-sensor data from a ground wheeled robot viewpoint	62
Contact-implicit Model Predictive Control: Controlling diverse quadruped motions without pre-planned contact modes or trajectories	61
Rapid locomotion via reinforcement learning	57
A new design and analysis of low-profile soft rotary pneumatic actuator for enhanced rotation and torque	44
SHINE: Social homology identification for navigation in crowded environments	43
A direct-drive five-bar manipulator with tuned directional first-order kinematics for low energy consumption in vertical loading	42
Macroscopic constraint-based modeling and dynamic simulation for manipulation with a belt-attached hand	42
Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on Lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation	38
Continuous latent state preintegration for inertial-aided systems	36
Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection	34
Linear electrostatic actuators with Moiré-effect optical proprioceptive sensing and electroadhesive braking	33
A neuromorphic approach to obstacle avoidance in robot manipulation	32
Step-coated FBG and runway-shaped beam 6-D F/T sensor with dynamic self-fault-tolerant for orthopedic surgery robot	32
Exploiting body redundancy to control supernumerary robotic limbs in human augmentation	31
Rearrangement on lattices with pick-n-swaps: Optimality structures and efficient algorithms	30
Morphological symmetries in robotics	28

Kinematic issues in 6R cuspidal robots, guidelines for path planning and deciding cuspidality	28
Optimal virtual tube planning and control for swarm robotics	27
Robot control based on motor primitives: A comparison of two approaches	27
Sensor-based distributionally robust control for safe robot navigation in dynamic environments	26
FORESEER: Recognize and utilize uncertainties by integrating data-based learning and symbolic feedback	25
The INSANE dataset: Large number of sensors for challenging UAV flights in Mars analog, outdoor, and out-/indoor transition scenarios	25
Multi-tactile sensor calibration via motion constraints with tactile measurements	25
Modeling multi-legged robot locomotion with slipping and its experimental validation	25
Spiral complete coverage path planning based on conformal slit mapping in multi-connected domains	24
Set-valued rigid-body dynamics for simultaneous, inelastic, frictional impacts	24
Joint search of optimal topology and trajectory for planar linkages	24
Topological belief space planning for active SLAM with pairwise Gaussian potentials and performance guarantees	24
BenchBot environments for active robotics (BEAR): Simulated data for active scene understanding research	22
Hypothesis selection with Monte Carlo tree search for feature-based simultaneous localization and mapping in non-static environments	22
Advancing robots with greater dynamic dexterity: A large-scale multi-view and multi-modal dataset of human-human throw&catch of arbitrary objects	22
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist	21
Sim2Real Neural Controllers for Physics-Based Robotic Deployment of Deformable Linear Objects	21
Autogenerated manipulation primitives	21
Learning to control and coordinate mixed traffic through robot vehicles at complex and unsignalized intersections	20
Robust pushing: Exploiting quasi-static belief dynamics and contact-informed optimization	20
A morphology-centered view towards describing bats dynamically versatile wing conformations	20
Sample-efficient safety assurances using conformal prediction	20
Integrated planning and control of robotic surgical instruments for task autonomy	19
Attitudes, self-efficacy and behavioral intentions to exercise with a socially assistive robot in individuals with schizophrenia: An exploratory study	19
Receding horizon navigation and target tracking for aerial detection of transient radioactivity	19
Reactivity and statefulness: Action-based sensors, plans, and necessary state	19
Magnetic needle steering control using Lyapunov redesign	18
Decentralized state estimation: An approach using pseudomeasurements and preintegration	17
Fast and robust learned single-view depth-aided monocular visual-inertial initialization	17
Pohang canal dataset: A multimodal maritime dataset for autonomous navigation in restricted waters	17
MassMIND: Massachusetts Maritime INfrared Dataset	17
Proprioceptive learning with soft polyhedral networks	16
Abstracting road traffic via topological braids: Applications to traffic flow analysis and distributed control	16
A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges	16
Simple kinesthetic haptics for object recognition	15
Offline motion libraries and online MPC for advanced mobility skills	15
Iterative residual policy: For goal-conditioned dynamic manipulation of deformable objects	15
The “Fluid Jacobian”: Modeling force-motion relationships in fluid-driven soft robots	14
3-D relative localization for multi-robot systems with angle and self-displacement measurements	14
Non-Euclidean motion planning with graphs of geodesically convex sets	13
Automatic encoding and repair of reactive high-level tasks with learned abstract representations	13
Analytical derivatives of strain-based dynamic model for hybrid soft-rigid robots	13
Magnetic concentric tube robots: Introduction and analysis	13
Unified force-impedance control	13
Active uncertainty reduction for safe and efficient interaction planning: A shielding-aware dual control approach	13
The role of heterogeneity in autonomous perimeter defense problems	12
Multimodal spatial language maps for robot navigation and manipulation	12
Selected papers from WAFR2020	12
Asynchronous multi-agent deep reinforcement learning under partial observability	12
FMB: A functional manipulation benchmark for generalizable robotic learning	11

Survey of maps of dynamics for mobile robots	11
Composable energy policies for reactive motion generation and reinforcement learning	11
The surface edge explorer (SEE): A measurement-direct approach to next best view planning	11
Behavior-predefined adaptive control for heterogeneous continuum robots	11
Weakly labelled spatial-temporal sweet pepper data: Enabling higher quality detection, segmentation, and tracking.	11
Active collision avoidance for teleoperated multi-segment continuum robots toward minimally invasive surgery	11
Learning orbitally stable dynamics via transverse contraction criteria for modeling periodic tasks	11
A general compensation control method for human–robot integration	11
Hybrid control for combining model-based and model-free reinforcement learning	11
Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems	11
MARS-LVIG dataset: A multi-sensor aerial robots SLAM dataset for LiDAR-visual-inertial-GNSS fusion	11
Multi-fidelity reinforcement learning for time-optimal quadrotor re-planning	10
Multilevel Monte Carlo for solving POMDPs on-line	10
An estimation method for vision-based autonomous landing system for fixed wing aircraft	10
The effects of selected object features on a pick-and-place task: A human multimodal dataset	10
Selected papers from ISRR'2019	10
Shared autonomy policy fine-tuning and alignment for robotic tasks	10
Why we must trust ourselves	10
Online and offline learning of player objectives from partial observations in dynamic games	10