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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	152
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	133
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	110
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	102
Editorial Board	86
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	84
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	80
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	80
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	74
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	73
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	71
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	68
Editorial Board	67
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	67
Editorial Board	64
Editorial Board	64
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	62
Learning differentiable dynamics models for shape control of deformable linear objects	62
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	60
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	59
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	56
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	55
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	51
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	49
Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	48

Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review	46
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	46
An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	46
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	46
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	45
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	44
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
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	42
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	40
Reinforcement learning in robotic motion planning by combined experience-based planning and self-imitation learning	40
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	39
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	38