OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Robotics and Autonomous Systems is 33. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
A review on absolute visual localization for UAV	78
Review of snake robots in constrained environments	68
A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI	68
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	67
Flexible gait transition for six wheel-legged robot with unstructured terrains	62
Cable driven exoskeleton for upper-limb rehabilitation: A design review	59
An efficient RRT cache method in dynamic environments for path planning	55
Deploying MAVs for autonomous navigation in dark underground mine environments	54
Skill transfer learning for autonomous robots and human–robot cooperation: A survey	50
Loop closure detection using supervised and unsupervised deep neural networks for monocular SLAM systems	48
A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques	48
Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: A survey on recent developments and research opportunities	47
Combining reinforcement learning with rule-based controllers for transparent and general decision-making in autonomous driving	45
Human–robot collaboration in sensorless assembly task learning enhanced by uncertainties adaptation via Bayesian Optimization	43
Enhanced ant colony algorithm with communication mechanism for mobile robot path planning	43
Fast-moving piezoelectric micro-robotic fish with double caudal fins	42
A survey of robot manipulation in contact	42
Modest-vocabulary loop-closure detection with incremental bag of tracked words	42
Jumping over obstacles with MIT Cheetah 2	41
A survey on human-aware robot navigation	40
Simulation-based lidar super-resolution for ground vehicles	39
Fixed-Wing UAVs flocking in continuous spaces: A deep reinforcement learning approach	38
Perceived safety in physical human–robot interaction—A survey	38
Roombots extended: Challenges in the next generation of self-reconfigurable modular robots and their application in adaptive and assistive furniture	37
ROS-based trajectory tracking control for autonomous tracked vehicle using optimized backstepping and sliding mode control	36

A magnetic crawler wall-climbing robot with capacity of high payload on the convex surface	36
Collective navigation of a multi-robot system in an unknown environment	35
I-Support: A robotic platform of an assistive bathing robot for the elderly population	35
Multi-Spectral Image Synthesis for Crop/Weed Segmentation in Precision Farming	34
Multi-camera visual SLAM for off-road navigation	34
FUHAR: A transformable wheel-legged hybrid mobile robot	33
Real-time deep learning approach to visual servo control and grasp detection for autonomous robotic manipulation	33
Visual detection and tracking algorithms for minimally invasive surgical instruments: A comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art	33
GR-LOAM: LiDAR-based sensor fusion SLAM for ground robots on complex terrain	33
Planning the sequence of tasks for harvesting robots	33