OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Robotics and Autonomous Systems is 40. 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
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	202
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	186
Estimation of lower limb rehabilitation exoskeleton torque by combining dual-joint parameter identification and neural network	146
Adaptive game-theoretic decision-making with driving style recognition for autonomous vehicles in uninterrupted traffic flows at intersections	133
Editorial Board	121
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	120
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	114
Robust fault-tolerant control of quadrotors under simultaneous multiple faults and input/state delays	113
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	97
Enhancing fault detection and performance for UAVs with digital twin systems in search and rescue missions	96
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	90
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	84
Phase-independent Dynamic Movement Primitives with applications to human–robot co-manipulation and time optimal planning	84
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	84
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	81
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	81
Analysis of vision-based Air-to-Air UAV detection using YOLO based architectures	68
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	68
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	66
Human-inspired dynamic obstacle and inter-collision avoidance algorithm for humanoid biped robots	66
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	65
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	65
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	63
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	60
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	57

Editorial Board	55
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	54
Editorial Board	54
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	54
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	53
Editorial Board	49
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	47
Large-scale multi-robot assembly planning for autonomous manufacturing	45
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	45
Distributed cooperative pursuit with encirclement guarantee via robust model predictive control	44
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	42
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	42
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	41
Graduated non-convex feature-metric-based 6D object pose refinement via deep reinforcement learning	41
Learning differentiable dynamics models for shape control of deformable linear objects	41