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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	179
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	178
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	87
Wild visual navigation: fast traversability learning via pre-trained models and online self-supervision	83
Robust robotic exploration and mapping using generative occupancy map synthesis	82
Towards balanced behavior cloning from imbalanced datasets	78
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	64
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	56
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	54
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	51
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	48
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	48
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	38
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	35
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	32
Tactile-based object retrieval from granular media	29
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	26
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	19
Visual localization in 3D maps: comparing point cloud, mesh, and NeRF representations	19
Multi-object active search and tracking by multiple agents in untrusted, dynamically changing environments	18
Persistent multi-resource coverage with heterogeneous multi-robot teams	18
Planned synchronization for multi-robot systems with active observations	18
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	18
Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	17
Learning modular language-conditioned robot policies through attention	16

ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	16
Reconfigurable robot swarms for terrain traversal with passive coupling mechanisms	16
Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	15
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	14
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	14
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	14
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	14
A tree-based exploration method: utilizing the topology of the map as the basis of goal selection	13
Enhanced spatial distribution for robust Gaussian SLAM with view-consistency optimization	13
Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	13
Effective tracking of unknown clustered targets using a distributed team of mobile robots	13
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	12
Human-drone collaboration via mixed-reality for efficient navigation and interaction in constrained environments: a comprehensive user case study	12
Task-oriented overlapping coalition formation: a game-theoretic framework for heterogeneous UAV task allocation	12
Risk-averse traversal of graphs with stochastic and correlated edge costs for safe global planetary mobility	11
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	11
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	10
FIMD: fast isolated marker detection for UV-based visual relative localisation in agile UAV swarms	10
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	10
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	10
Editorial note from the publisher	10
Aerial robots persistent monitoring and target detection: deployment and assessment in the field	10
Es-cbf: an energy sufficiency extension for sample based path planners to enable long term autonomy	10
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	10
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	9
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	9
Estimating map completeness in robot exploration	9
An empirical characterization of ODE models of swarm behaviors in common foraging scenarios	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
The human in the loop Perspectives and challenges for RoboCup 2050	9
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	9
RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations	8
Terrain traversability prediction through self-supervised learning and unsupervised domain adaptation on synthetic data	8
SMORES-EP, a modular robot with parallel self-assembly	8
An anytime Visibility–Voronoi graph-search algorithm for generating robust and feasible unmanned surface vehicle paths	8
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
An overview of space-variant and active vision mechanisms for resource-constrained human inspired robotic vision	7
Learning scalable and efficient communication policies for multi-robot collision avoidance	7
DynaLOAM: robust LiDAR odometry and mapping in dynamic environments	6
A concurrent learning approach to monocular vision range regulation of leader/follower systems	6
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	6
Why ORB-SLAM is missing commonly occurring loop closures?	6
A hybrid inductive learning-based and deductive reasoning-based 3-D path planning method in complex environments	6
Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	6
Robust inverse dynamics by evaluating Newton–Euler equations with respect to a moving reference and measuring angular acceleration	6
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	6
Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	6

Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	6
SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	5
Shortest coordinated motions for square robots	5
2D construction planning for swarms of simple earthmover robots	5
Large language models for chemistry robotics	5
BFAR: improving radar odometry estimation using a bounded false alarm rate detector	5
A unified framework for measuring interplane and intraplane coupling in spatial biped robots	5
Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots	5
Isolated Kalman filtering: theory and decoupled estimator design	4
Online insertion trajectory correction for robot peg-in-hole assembly with floating targets	4
R $$\times $$ R: Rapid eXploration for Reinforcement learning via sampling-based reset distributions and imitation pre-training	4
Learning latent representations to co-adapt to humans	4
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
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds	4
Formal design, verification and implementation of robotic controller software via RoboChart and RoboTool	4
ASAP-MPC: an asynchronous update scheme for online motion planning with nonlinear model predictive control	4
Data-driven gait model for bipedal locomotion over continuous changing speeds and inclines	4
Context-aware system synthesis, task assignment, and routing	4
Between reality and delusion: challenges of applying large language models to companion robots for open-domain dialogues with older adults	4
Synthesizing compact behavior trees for probabilistic robotics domains	4
Editor’s note - Special issue on Robot Swarms in the Real World: from Design to Deployment	3
Global feature enhancement and skip-connected fusion for grasping detection	3
Bridging the reality gap in drone swarm development through mixed reality	3
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	3
COVER: cross-vehicle transition framework for quadrotor control in air-ground cooperation	3
Autonomous robotic manipulation for grasping a target object in cluttered environments	3
Manipulation at optimum locations for maximum force transmission with mobile robots under environmental disturbances	3
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	3
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	3
Complex environment localization system using complementary ceiling and ground map information	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
A penalized batch-Bayesian approach to informative path planning for decentralized swarm robotic search	3
Active object perception using Bayesian classifiers and haptic exploration	3