Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Article	Citations
Deep reinforcement learning of event-triggered communication and consensus-based control for distributed cooperative transport	104
A survey of robot manipulation in contact	98
Automatic lane change based on dynamic occupancy of an adaptive gird zone	90
A review of advances in underwater humanoid robots for human–machine cooperation	82
Approaching motion planning for mobile manipulators considering the uncertainty of self-positioning and object’s pose estimation	75
Learning to Control Highly Accelerated Ballistic Movements on Muscular Robots	67
Dynamic Global/Local multi-layer motion planner architecture for autonomous Cognitive Surgical Robots	59
Towards a systematic computational framework for modeling multi-agent decision-making at micro level for smart vehicles in a smart world	58
Bimanual telemanipulation with force and haptic feedback through an anthropomorphic avatar system	58
Jumping over obstacles with MIT Cheetah 2	57
Adaptive visual servo control law for finite-time tracking to land quadrotor on moving platform using virtual reticle algorithm	55
Editorial Board	54
Gait rehabilitation training robot: A motion-intention recognition approach with safety and convenience	54
Enabling intuitive and effective micromanipulation: A wearable exoskeleton-integrated macro-to-micro teleoperation system with a 3D electrothermal microgripper	52
A causal-based approach to explain, predict and prevent failures in robotic tasks	49
Cyclic policy distillation: Sample-efficient sim-to-real reinforcement learning with domain randomization	49
Robust iterative value conversion: Deep reinforcement learning for neurochip-driven edge robots	49
The PoundCloud framework for ROS-based cloud robotics: Case studies on autonomous navigation and human–robot interaction	48
Path planning algorithms in the autonomous driving system: A comprehensive review	48
Vision-based manipulation of deformable and rigid objects using subspace projections of 2D contours	46
Multi-agent planning and coordination for automated aircraft ground handling	45
Robust interaction control for environments having uncertainties	43
Development and application of key technologies for Guide Dog Robot: A systematic literature review	43
Editorial Board	41
Improving MapReduce heterogeneous performance using KNN fair share scheduling	41

An analysis of international use of robots for COVID-19	38
A modular functional framework for the design and evaluation of multi-robot navigation	37
Correspondenceless scan-to-map-scan matching of homoriented 2D scans for mobile robot localisation	37
Editorial Board	34
Implementation and observability analysis of visual-inertial-wheel odometry with robust initialization and online extrinsic calibration	33
Bimanual dynamic grabbing and tossing of objects onto a moving target	33
Special issue on the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-17)	33
Automatic extension of a symbolic mobile manipulation skill set	33
Software engineering for robotics	33
Near-optimal 3D trajectory design in presence of obstacles: A convolutional neural network approach	32
Path Inference based on Voronoi Graph for Unmanned Maritime Vehicles	32
Adaptation of Hand Exoskeletons for Occupational Augmentation: A Literature Review	31
Editorial Board	29
Extremum seeking control for the trajectory tracking of a skid steering vehicle via averaged sub-gradient integral sliding-mode theory	29
Task parse tree: Learning task policy from videos with task-irrelevant components	28
RevAP: A bankruptcy-based algorithm to solve the multi-agent credit assignment problem in task start threshold-based multi-agent systems	28
Message flow analysis with complex causal links for distributed ROS 2 systems	27
Social interaction model enhanced with speculation stage for human trajectory prediction	27
Trust as a metric for auction-based task assignment in a cooperative team of robots with heterogeneous capabilities	26
Heel-strike and toe-off walking of humanoid robot using quadratic programming considering the foot contact states	26
Editorial Board	26
A multi-locomotion clustered tensegrity mobile robot with fewer actuators	26
An incremental cross-modal transfer learning method for gesture interaction	25
Design and development of software stack of an autonomous vehicle using robot operating system	25
The XBot2 real-time middleware for robotics	24
Compensation-corrective adaptive control strategy for upper-limb rehabilitation robots	24
Overcome the Fear Of Missing Out: Active sensing UAV scanning for precision agriculture	24
Peg-in-hole assembly in live-line maintenance based on generative mapping and searching network	24
A novel collaborative path planning algorithm for 3-wheel omnidirectional Autonomous Mobile Robot	24
Formation control of distance and orientation based-model of an omnidirectional robot and a quadrotor UAV	23
Design and control of an aerial-ground tethered tendon-driven continuum robot with hybrid routing	22
Safe deep learning-based global path planning using a fast collision-free path generator	21
Person-Following Controller with Socially Acceptable Robot Motion	21
A novel search and survey technique for unmanned aerial systems in detecting and estimating the area for wildfires	21
Accurate and real-time human-joint-position estimation for a patient-transfer robot using a two-level convolutional neutral network	21
Visual Predictive Control for mobile manipulator: Visibility, manipulability, and stability	21
Editorial Board	20
Strategies for large scale elastic and semantic LiDAR reconstruction	20
A lumen-adapted navigation scheme with spatial awareness from monocular vision for autonomous robotic endoscopy	20
Synthesis of strategies for autonomous surveillance on adversarial targets	20
A survey of Semantic Reasoning frameworks for robotic systems	20
Bio-inspired origamic pouch motors with a high contraction ratio and enhanced force output	20
Editorial Board	20
Development and evaluation of fiber reinforced modular soft actuators and an individualized soft rehabilitation glove	20
A flexible and collaborative approach to robotic box-filling and item sorting	19
Application of the unscented Kalman filter in position estimation a case study on a robot for precise positioning	19
Constrained visual predictive control of tendon-driven continuum robots	19
Fusion innovation: Multi-scale dilated collaborative model of ConvNeXt and MSDA for fault diagnosis	19
Online gait generator for lower limb exoskeleton robots: Suitable for level ground, slopes, stairs, and obstacle avoidance	19
Uncertain moving obstacles avoiding method in 3D arbitrary path planning for a spherical underwater robot	19

A review of perception sensors, techniques, and hardware architectures for autonomous low-altitude UAVs in non-cooperative local obstacle avoidance	19
Smooth collision avoidance for the formation control of first order multi-agent systems	19
Modeling and numerical analysis of Kangaroo lower body based on constrained dynamics of hybrid serial–parallel floating-base systems	18
Real-time identification and avoidance of simultaneous static and dynamic obstacles on point cloud for UAVs navigation	18
A telerobotic system enabling online switching among various architectures and controllers	18
Editorial Board	18
Modelling and identification methods for simulation of cable-suspended dual-arm robotic systems	18
Navigating the blame game: Investigating automated vehicle fault in collisions under mixed traffic conditions	18
Online trajectory optimization for safe autonomous overtaking with active obstacle avoidance	18
Balanced task allocation and collision-free scheduling of multi-robot systems in large spacecraft structure manufacturing	18
Intelligent decision-making system for multiple marine autonomous surface ships based on deep reinforcement learning	17
Stable skill improvement of quadruped robot based on privileged information and curriculum guidance	17
A review of UAV autonomous navigation in GPS-denied environments	17
Hybrid system for optimizing the robot mobile navigation using ANFIS and PSO	17
A magnetic crawler wall-climbing robot with capacity of high payload on the convex surface	16
A parallel shape formation method for swarm robotics	16
Model-based variable impedance learning control for robotic manipulation	16
Reinforcement learning control for the swimming motions of a beaver-like, single-legged robot based on biological inspiration	16
Distributed strategy for communication between multiple robots during formation navigation task	16
Dual-view 3D object recognition and detection via Lidar point cloud and camera image	16
A novel end-to-end vision-based architecture for agricultural human–robot collaboration in fruit picking operations	16
Distributed multi-UAV shield formation based on virtual surface constraints	16
Delay compensated state estimation for Telepresence robot navigation	16
GR-LOAM: LiDAR-based sensor fusion SLAM for ground robots on complex terrain	15
A critical review and systematic design approach for innovative upper-limb rehabilitation devices	15
A survey of Behavior Trees in robotics and AI	15
A novel robust adaptive neuro-sliding mode steering controller for autonomous ground vehicles	15
Kinematic sensitivity analysis of manipulators using a novel dimensionless index	15
Robust walking stabilization strategy of humanoid robots on uneven terrain via QP-based impedance/admittance control	15
When and where to step: Terrain-aware real-time footstep location and timing optimization for bipedal robots	15
Evolutionary Tabu Inverted Ant Cellular Automata with Elitist Inertia for swarm robotics as surrogate method in surveillance task using e-Puck architecture	14
Design and characterization of a lightweight underactuated RACA hand exoskeleton for neurorehabilitation	14
A novel hybrid swarm intelligence algorithm for solving TSP and desired-path-based online obstacle avoidance strategy for AUV	14
Local-HDP: Interactive open-ended 3D object category recognition in real-time robotic scenarios	14
Overcoming some drawbacks of Dynamic Movement Primitives	14
A novel hybrid adhesion method and autonomous locomotion mechanism for wall-climbing robots	14
Approximate sequential optimization for informative path planning	14
Dual-stage planner for autonomous radioactive source localization in unknown environments	14
A systematic mapping study of robotics in human care	14
Lifelong ensemble learning based on multiple representations for few-shot object recognition	14
MVGrasp: Real-time multi-view 3D object grasping in highly cluttered environments	14
Shape-Guided Detection: A joint network combining object detection and underwater image enhancement together	14
Fractional sliding mode control for an autonomous two-wheeled vehicle equipped with an innovative gyroscopic actuator	14
Ourobot—A sensorized closed-kinematic-chain robot for shape-adaptive rolling in rough terrain	14
A constraint embedding approach for dynamics modeling of parallel kinematic manipulators with hybrid limbs	14
Pose accuracy improvement in robotic machining by visually-guided method and experimental investigation	14
Disturbance-aware reinforcement learning for rejecting excessive disturbances	13
Rendering the Directional TSDF for Tracking and Multi-Sensor Registration with Point-To-Plane Scale ICP	13
Editorial Board	13
Planning and control of multi-robot-object systems under temporal logic tasks and uncertain dynamics	13
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	13
External six-bar mechanism rehabilitation device for index finger: Development and shape synthesis	13
An overactuated aerial robot based on cooperative quadrotors attached through passive universal joints: Modeling, control and 6-DoF trajectory tracking	13
Editorial Board	13
A hybrid position–rate teleoperation system	13
Bio-inspired classification and evolution of multirotor Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs): A comprehensive review	13
Human-robot interactions in autonomous hospital transports	13
Convolutionally evaluated gradient first search path planning algorithm without prior global maps	13
LiODOM: Adaptive local mapping for robust LiDAR-only odometry	13
Direct trajectory optimization of macro-micro robotic system using a Gauss pseudospectral framework	12
RobustStateNet: Robust ego vehicle state estimation for Autonomous Driving	12
Line–Circle–Square (LCS): A multilayered geometric filter for edge-based detection	12
Sequential control barrier functions for mobile robots with dynamic temporal logic specifications	12
Enhancing lane detection with a lightweight collaborative late fusion model	12
Comparing metrics for evaluating 3D map quality in natural environments	12
Editorial Board	12
Teleoperation by seamless transitions in real and virtual world environments	12
iCORPP: Interleaved commonsense reasoning and probabilistic planning on robots	12
Editorial Board	11
Special Issue on the 9th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2019)	11
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Consistency optimal coordination control of underground heavy-load robot in nonstructural environment	11
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Temporal sampling annealing schemes for receding horizon multi-agent planning	11
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Goal-aware generative adversarial imitation learning from imperfect demonstration for robotic cloth manipulation	11
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Light deep learning models enriched with Entangled features for RGB-D semantic segmentation	11
The semantic PHD filter for multi-class target tracking: From theory to practice	11

Simultaneous search and monitoring by multiple aerial robots	11
Editorial Board	11
Learning differentiable dynamics models for shape control of deformable linear objects	11
Cooperative Artificial Intelligence for underwater robotic swarm	10
Fuzzy dynamical system for robot learning motion skills from human demonstration	10
Hybrid autonomous controller for bipedal robot balance with deep reinforcement learning and pattern generators	10
Performance analysis of buck converter with fractional PID controller using hybrid technique	10
Spherical rolling robots—Design, modeling, and control: A systematic literature review	10
A memory system of a robot cognitive architecture and its implementation in ArmarX	10
Ring Gaussian Mixture Modelling and Regression for collaborative robots	10
A numerically-stable trajectory generation and optimization algorithm for autonomous quadrotor UAVs	10
Long-term vehicle localization in urban environments based on pole landmarks extracted from 3-D lidar scans	10
Receding Horizon Task and Motion Planning in Changing Environments	10
Congestion control algorithms for robotic swarms with a common target based on the throughput of the target area	10
Hand-impedance measurements with robots during laparoscopy training	10
Learning stable robotic skills on Riemannian manifolds	10
Collision-free path planning for multiple robots using efficient turn-angle assignment	10
A survey of multi-agent Human–Robot Interaction systems	10
An exploratory study of software engineering in heavy-duty mobile machine automation	9
On a dynamic and decentralized energy-aware technique for multi-robot task allocation	9
A new approach to smooth path planning of Ackerman mobile robot based on improved ACO algorithm and B-spline curve	9
Robotics and artificial intelligence in healthcare during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	9
A new discrete-time repetitive motion planning scheme based on pseudoinverse formulation for redundant robot manipulators with joint constrains	9
Design and experiment of a variable stiffness prosthetic knee joint using parallel elastic actuation	9
Bootstrapped Neuro-Simulation for complex robots	9
Parameterised robotic system meta-model expressed by Hierarchical Petri nets	9
Human–robot collaboration in sensorless assembly task learning enhanced by uncertainties adaptation via Bayesian Optimization	9
Mobile robot’s path-planning and path-tracking in static and dynamic environments: Dynamic programming approach	9
Online task segmentation by merging symbolic and data-driven skill recognition during kinesthetic teaching	9
Enhancing human–robot collaborative transportation through obstacle-aware vibrotactile warning and virtual fixtures	9
Stackelberg game approach for resource allocation in device-to-device communication with heterogeneous networks	9
A decoupled solution to heterogeneous multi-formation planning and coordination for object transportation	9
A virtual force interaction scheme for multi-robot environment monitoring	9
Robotic picking in dense clutter via domain invariant learning from synthetic dense cluttered rendering	9
A rapidly-exploring random trees approach to combined task and motion planning	9
Human-in-the-loop layered architecture for control of a wearable ankle–foot robot	9
Reinforcement learning in robotic motion planning by combined experience-based planning and self-imitation learning	9
Force analysis of the redundantly actuated parallel mechanism 2R	9
Mask-VRDet: A robust riverway panoptic perception model based on dual graph fusion of vision and 4D mmWave radar	9
Structural optimization of a rotary joint by hybrid method of FEM, neural-fuzzy and water cycle–moth flame algorithm for robotics and automation manufacturing	9
TRUSTS: A novel treadmill-based multifunctional testing system for performance evaluation of wheeled planetary exploration rover	9
Occupant-centric robotic air filtration and planning for classrooms for Safer school reopening amid respiratory pandemics	9