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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	193
Towards balanced behavior cloning from imbalanced datasets	190
Robust robotic exploration and mapping using generative occupancy map synthesis	98
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	94
Decentralized Information-driven Approach for Tracking Multiple Moving Targets with Multi-Robot Networks	90
Distributed autonomous robotic systems 2024	82
Wild visual navigation: fast traversability learning via pre-trained models and online self-supervision	73
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	68
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	67
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	54
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	53
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	43
Vision-based manipulation from single human video with open-world object graphs	42
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	40
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	32
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	23
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	22
Tactile-based object retrieval from granular media	21
Visual localization in 3D maps: comparing point cloud, mesh, and NeRF representations	20
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	19
Multi-object active search and tracking by multiple agents in untrusted, dynamically changing environments	18
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	18
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	18
Persistent multi-resource coverage with heterogeneous multi-robot teams	18
Planned synchronization for multi-robot systems with active observations	18

Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	17
ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	16
Reconfigurable robot swarms for terrain traversal with passive coupling mechanisms	16
Learning modular language-conditioned robot policies through attention	16
Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	16
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	15
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	15
Effective tracking of unknown clustered targets using a distributed team of mobile robots	14
Enhanced spatial distribution for robust Gaussian SLAM with view-consistency optimization	14
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	14
A tree-based exploration method: utilizing the topology of the map as the basis of goal selection	14
Agile assistive hospital robot for suboptimal Task execution in dynamic environments	13
Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	13
Task-oriented overlapping coalition formation: a game-theoretic framework for heterogeneous UAV task allocation	13
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	13
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	12
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	12
Human-drone collaboration via mixed-reality for efficient navigation and interaction in constrained environments: a comprehensive user case study	12
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	11
Risk-averse traversal of graphs with stochastic and correlated edge costs for safe global planetary mobility	11
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	11
FIMD: fast isolated marker detection for UV-based visual relative localisation in agile UAV swarms	11
Es-cbf: an energy sufficiency extension for sample based path planners to enable long term autonomy	11
Editorial note from the publisher	11
Aerial robots persistent monitoring and target detection: deployment and assessment in the field	10
Estimating map completeness in robot exploration	10
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	10
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	10
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	10
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	10
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	10
An anytime Visibility–Voronoi graph-search algorithm for generating robust and feasible unmanned surface vehicle paths	9
An empirical characterization of ODE models of swarm behaviors in common foraging scenarios	9
Terrain traversability prediction through self-supervised learning and unsupervised domain adaptation on synthetic data	9
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	9
The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050	9
SMORES-EP, a modular robot with parallel self-assembly	8
An overview of space-variant and active vision mechanisms for resource-constrained human inspired robotic vision	7
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	7
Text2Motion: from natural language instructions to feasible plans	7
TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models	7
Adaptive ergodic search with energy-aware scheduling for persistent multi-robot missions	7
RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations	7
Learning scalable and efficient communication policies for multi-robot collision avoidance	7
Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	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
Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	6
DynaLOAM: robust LiDAR odometry and mapping in dynamic environments	6
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	6

SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	6
Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	6
A unified framework for measuring interplane and intraplane coupling in spatial biped robots	6
Why ORB-SLAM is missing commonly occurring loop closures?	6
BFAR: improving radar odometry estimation using a bounded false alarm rate detector	5
Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots	5
Data-driven gait model for bipedal locomotion over continuous changing speeds and inclines	5
2D construction planning for swarms of simple earthmover robots	5
Shortest coordinated motions for square robots	5
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds	5
Large language models for chemistry robotics	5
Context-aware system synthesis, task assignment, and routing	5
Adaptive exploration under localization uncertainty using multi-fidelity Gaussian processes	4
Bayesian incremental inference update by re-using calculations from belief space planning: a new paradigm	4
ASAP-MPC: an asynchronous update scheme for online motion planning with nonlinear model predictive control	4
Synthesizing compact behavior trees for probabilistic robotics domains	4
Formal design, verification and implementation of robotic controller software via RoboChart and RoboTool	4
R $$\times $$ R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement learning via sampling-based reset distributions and imitation pre-training	4
Online insertion trajectory correction for robot peg-in-hole assembly with floating targets	4
Isolated Kalman filtering: theory and decoupled estimator design	4
Time-discounted ergodicity on graphs for active robotic inspection of confined spaces	4
Autonomous robotic manipulation for grasping a target object in cluttered environments	3
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	3
Humans as path-finders for mobile robots using teach-by-showing navigation	3
Correction: Planning under uncertainty for safe robot exploration using gaussian process prediction	3
Between reality and delusion: challenges of applying large language models to companion robots for open-domain dialogues with older adults	3
Autonomous exploration with online learning of traversable yet visually rigid obstacles	3
Bridging the reality gap in drone swarm development through mixed reality	3
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	3
Robust bounded control scheme for quadrotor vehicles under high dynamic disturbances	3
Global feature enhancement and skip-connected fusion for grasping detection	3
Editor’s note - Special issue on Robot Swarms in the Real World: from Design to Deployment	3
Complex environment localization system using complementary ceiling and ground map information	3
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	3
An empowerment-based solution to robotic manipulation tasks with sparse rewards	3
Learning latent representations to co-adapt to humans	3