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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimal path planning for unmanned aerial vehicles with multiple round-trip flights in coverage tasks	189
Dexterous in-hand manipulation of slender cylindrical objects through deep reinforcement learning with tactile sensing	153
Editorial Board	148
High-safety path optimization for mobile robots using an improved ant colony algorithm with integrated repulsive field rules	136
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	117
Three-dimensional magnetometer calibration using higher order models embedded into neural networks	110
Analysis of vision-based Air-to-Air UAV detection using YOLO based architectures	109
Robust fault-tolerant control of quadrotors under simultaneous multiple faults and input/state delays	106
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	97
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	91
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	90
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	87
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	82
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	80
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	80
Human-inspired dynamic obstacle and inter-collision avoidance algorithm for humanoid biped robots	79
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	79
An adaptive framework for trajectory following in changing-contact robot manipulation tasks	76
Distributed cooperative pursuit with encirclement guarantee via robust model predictive control	66
dGrasp: NeRF-Informed implicit grasp policies with supervised optimization slopes	64
RainSD: Rain style diversification module for image synthesis enhancement using feature-level style distribution	62
POE-based kinematic calibration for serial robots using left-invariant error representation and decomposed iterative method	61
A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future	60
Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	60
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	59

An explainable deep learning model for automated classification and localization of microrobots by functionality using ultrasound images	59
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	57
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	53
Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review	53
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	52
Editorial Board	51
Design of 9-DOF humanoid arms inspired by the human’s inner shoulder to enhance versatility and workspace	51
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	51
Editorial Board	51
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	46
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	45
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	42
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	40
Editorial Board	40
Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	39
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	39