OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Robotics and Autonomous Systems is 37. 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
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	166
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	146
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	121
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	108
Editorial Board	97
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	97
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	93
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	89
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	87
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	86
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	85
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	77
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	76
Editorial Board	76
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	74
Editorial Board	73
Editorial Board	67
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	60
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	57
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	54
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	54
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	52
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	51
An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	51
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	50

RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	48
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	47
Identification of physically consistent dynamics parameter of the ABB IRB 360-6/1600 delta robot and its use for time-optimal motion planning under consideration of constraint forces	46
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	45
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	43
Cooperative Artificial Intelligence for underwater robotic swarm	42
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	41
Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	41
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	40
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	39
Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review	39
Reinforcement learning in robotic motion planning by combined experience-based planning and self-imitation learning	37
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	37
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	37