OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Autonomous Robots is 3. 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
Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling with temporospatial constraints	131
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	87
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	81
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	75
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	66
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	63
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	55
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	46
Image based Localization under large perspective difference between Sfm and SLAM using split sim(3) optimization	45
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	41
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	41
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	35
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	35
Semantic visual SLAM in dynamic environment	35
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	33
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	32
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	32
LatticeNet: fast spatio-temporal point cloud segmentation using permutohedral lattices	32
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	31
Sampling-based planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering	31
A unified control strategy for autonomous aerial vehicles	30
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	30
Guest Editorial: Special issue on “Topological methods in robotics”	29
Learning modular language-conditioned robot policies through attention	28
Leveraging experience in lazy search	27

Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	26
Transfer learning of coverage functions via invariant properties in the fourier domain	25
Autonomous foraging with a pack of robots based on repulsion, attraction and influence	23
Semi-dense visual-inertial odometry and mapping for computationally constrained platforms	23
ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	21
A topological extension of movement primitives for curvature modulation and sampling of robot motion	19
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	19
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	18
Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	17
A novel adaptive iterative learning control approach and human-in-the-loop control pattern for lower limb rehabilitation robot in disturbances environment	16
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	16
Cooperative multi-UAV coverage mission planning platform for remote sensing applications	16
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	15
Correspondence identification for collaborative multi-robot perception under uncertainty	14
Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	14
Topological navigation graph framework	13
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	12
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	12
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	12
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	12
Learning and planning with logical automata	12
Annotation scaffolds for manipulating articulated objects	12
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	11
Bayes–Nash: Bayesian inference for Nash equilibrium selection in human-robot parallel play	11
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	10
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	10
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	10
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	10
A visibility-based pursuit-evasion game between two nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles	9
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	9
Learning latent actions to control assistive robots	9
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	9
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	9
Terrain traversability prediction through self-supervised learning and unsupervised domain adaptation on synthetic data	8
Embodied scene description	8
TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models	8
An anytime Visibility–Voronoi graph-search algorithm for generating robust and feasible unmanned surface vehicle paths	8
An empirical characterization of ODE models of swarm behaviors in common foraging scenarios	8
RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations	8
SMORES-EP, a modular robot with parallel self-assembly	8
The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050	8
A Bayesian tracker for synthesizing mobile robot behaviour from demonstration	7
Dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty and temporal constraints	7
A hybrid inductive learning-based and deductive reasoning-based 3-D path planning method in complex environments	7
Text2Motion: from natural language instructions to feasible plans	7
Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	7
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	7
Learning scalable and efficient communication policies for multi-robot collision avoidance	7
An overview of space-variant and active vision mechanisms for resource-constrained human inspired robotic vision	7
Editor’s Note	7

SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	6
A concurrent learning approach to monocular vision range regulation of leader/follower systems	6
Robust inverse dynamics by evaluating Newton–Euler equations with respect to a moving reference and measuring angular acceleration	6
Why ORB-SLAM is missing commonly occurring loop closures?	6
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	6
Adaptive submodular inverse reinforcement learning for spatial search and map exploration	6
BFAR: improving radar odometry estimation using a bounded false alarm rate detector	6
Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	6
Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	6
A unified framework for measuring interplane and intraplane coupling in spatial biped robots	6
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds	5
Large language models for chemistry robotics	5
Formal design, verification and implementation of robotic controller software via RoboChart and RoboTool	5
Stochastic spatio-temporal optimization for control and co-design of systems in robotics and applied physics	5
Learning temporal logic formulas from suboptimal demonstrations: theory and experiments	5
Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots	5
Context-aware system synthesis, task assignment, and routing	5
Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey	5
R $$\times $$ R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement learning via sampling-based reset distributions and imitation pre-training	5
ASAP-MPC: an asynchronous update scheme for online motion planning with nonlinear model predictive control	4
VIR-SLAM: visual, inertial, and ranging SLAM for single and multi-robot systems	4
Between reality and delusion: challenges of applying large language models to companion robots for open-domain dialogues with older adults	4
Isolated Kalman filtering: theory and decoupled estimator design	4
Bayesian incremental inference update by re-using calculations from belief space planning: a new paradigm	4
Synthesizing compact behavior trees for probabilistic robotics domains	4
Data-driven gait model for bipedal locomotion over continuous changing speeds and inclines	4
Learning latent representations to co-adapt to humans	4
OverlapNet: a siamese network for computing LiDAR scan similarity with applications to loop closing and localization	3
Autonomous exploration with online learning of traversable yet visually rigid obstacles	3
Humans as path-finders for mobile robots using teach-by-showing navigation	3
Herding stochastic autonomous agents via local control rules and online target selection strategies	3
Editor’s note - Special issue on Robot Swarms in the Real World: from Design to Deployment	3
Navigating by touch: haptic Monte Carlo localization via geometric sensing and terrain classification	3
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	3
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	3
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	3
Topological representation of cloth state for robot manipulation	3
Sequence-based visual place recognition: a scale-space approach for boundary detection	3
Manipulation at optimum locations for maximum force transmission with mobile robots under environmental disturbances	3
A penalized batch-Bayesian approach to informative path planning for decentralized swarm robotic search	3