OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Robotics and Autonomous Systems is 39. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	172
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	148
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	126
Editorial Board	118
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	100
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	100
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	96
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	90
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	90
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	89
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	88
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	81
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	77
Editorial Board	76
Enhancing Fault Detection and Performance for UAVs with Digital Twin Systems in Search and Rescue Missions	76
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	74
Editorial Board	70
Editorial Board	65
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	63
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	61
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	55
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	55
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	54
Reinforcement learning in robotic motion planning by combined experience-based planning and self-imitation learning	53
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	53

Cooperative Artificial Intelligence for underwater robotic swarm	53
An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	52
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	48
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	47
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	47
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	45
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	44
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	43
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	43
Human-inspired dynamic obstacle and inter-collision avoidance algorithm for humanoid biped robots	42
Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	40
A survey of multi-agent Human–Robot Interaction systems	39
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	39
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	39