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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A review on absolute visual localization for UAV	105
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	98
A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI	98
Review of snake robots in constrained environments	87
A review of GNSS-independent UAV navigation techniques	76
Flexible gait transition for six wheel-legged robot with unstructured terrains	72
Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: A survey on recent developments and research opportunities	58
A survey of robot manipulation in contact	58
ROS-based trajectory tracking control for autonomous tracked vehicle using optimized backstepping and sliding mode control	57
A survey on human-aware robot navigation	56
Perceived safety in physical human–robot interaction—A survey	55
Jumping over obstacles with MIT Cheetah 2	54
Enhanced ant colony algorithm with communication mechanism for mobile robot path planning	52
Fast-moving piezoelectric micro-robotic fish with double caudal fins	50
A magnetic crawler wall-climbing robot with capacity of high payload on the convex surface	50
Teleoperation methods and enhancement techniques for mobile robots: A comprehensive survey	49
Human–robot collaboration in sensorless assembly task learning enhanced by uncertainties adaptation via Bayesian Optimization	49
Simulation-based lidar super-resolution for ground vehicles	48
Multi-Spectral Image Synthesis for Crop/Weed Segmentation in Precision Farming	48
Modest-vocabulary loop-closure detection with incremental bag of tracked words	46
A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future	46
Visual detection and tracking algorithms for minimally invasive surgical instruments: A comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art	43
Dual-view 3D object recognition and detection via Lidar point cloud and camera image	43
FUHAR: A transformable wheel-legged hybrid mobile robot	42
GR-LOAM: LiDAR-based sensor fusion SLAM for ground robots on complex terrain	41

Vision-based manipulation of deformable and rigid objects using subspace projections of 2D contours	41
Real-time deep learning approach to visual servo control and grasp detection for autonomous robotic manipulation	41
A new approach to time-optimal trajectory planning with torque and jerk limits for robot	38
Heuristic-based method for conflict discovery of shared control between humans and autonomous systems - A driving automation case study	37
A Review of quadrotor UAV: Control and SLAM methodologies ranging from conventional to innovative approaches	36
Fuzzy controlled humanoid robots: A literature review	35
Uncertain moving obstacles avoiding method in 3D arbitrary path planning for a spherical underwater robot	34
Autonomous drone race: A computationally efficient vision-based navigation and control strategy	34
Driver identification using only the CAN-Bus vehicle data through an RCN deep learning approach	33
Robust deflection control and analysis of a fishing rod-type flexible robotic manipulator for collaborative robotics	33
Overcoming some drawbacks of Dynamic Movement Primitives	33
Hybrid force/position control in workspace of robotic manipulator in uncertain environments based on adaptive fuzzy control	33