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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Motion planning and control for mobile robot navigation using machine learning: a survey	89
OverlapNet: a siamese network for computing LiDAR scan similarity with applications to loop closing and localization	67
AlphaPilot: autonomous drone racing	55
Dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty and temporal constraints	46
Text2Motion: from natural language instructions to feasible plans	42
Road surface detection and differentiation considering surface damages	38
VIR-SLAM: visual, inertial, and ranging SLAM for single and multi-robot systems	37
Continuous control actions learning and adaptation for robotic manipulation through reinforcement learning	35
Network offloading policies for cloud robotics: a learning-based approach	35
Cooperative multi-UAV coverage mission planning platform for remote sensing applications	32
TidyBot: personalized robot assistance with large language models	32
Semantic visual SLAM in dynamic environment	30
Sensorless environment stiffness and interaction force estimation for impedance control tuning in robotized interaction tasks	29
Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling with temporospatial constraints	26
LatticeNet: fast spatio-temporal point cloud segmentation using permutohedral lattices	24
ALGAMES: a fast augmented Lagrangian solver for constrained dynamic games	23
A novel adaptive iterative learning control approach and human-in-the-loop control pattern for lower limb rehabilitation robot in disturbances environment	22
How to train your differentiable filter	22
Decentralized probabilistic multi-robot collision avoidance using buffered uncertainty-aware Voronoi cells	22
Decentralized swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue operations without explicit communication	21
VisuoSpatial Foresight for physical sequential fabric manipulation	20
Learning latent actions to control assistive robots	20
SMORES-EP, a modular robot with parallel self-assembly	20
AEB-RRT: an adaptive extension bidirectional RRT algorithm	20
Sensor fusion of two sonar devices for underwater 3D mapping with an AUV	20

A feasibility-driven approach to control-limited DDP	18
Herding by caging: a formation-based motion planning framework for guiding mobile agents	17
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	17
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	16
Aggressive maneuvers for a quadrotor-slung-load system through fast trajectory generation and tracking	15
Navigating by touch: haptic Monte Carlo localization via geometric sensing and terrain classification	15
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	15
Deep introspective SLAM: deep reinforcement learning based approach to avoid tracking failure in visual SLAM	14
Semantic anomaly detection with large language models	14
Sampling-based planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering	14
Robot-to-robot relative pose estimation using humans as markers	13
ProgPrompt: program generation for situated robot task planning using large language models	13
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	12
A visibility-based pursuit-evasion game between two nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles	11
Hierarchical topometric representation of 3D robotic maps	11
Expert Intervention Learning	11
Herding stochastic autonomous agents via local control rules and online target selection strategies	10
AGRI-SLAM: a real-time stereo visual SLAM for agricultural environment	10
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	10
Topological path planning for autonomous information gathering	10
Effect of compliance on morphological control of dynamic locomotion with HyQ	10
Large language models for chemistry robotics	10
Imitation learning-based framework for learning 6-D linear compliant motions	9
An anytime Visibility–Voronoi graph-search algorithm for generating robust and feasible unmanned surface vehicle paths	9
Integrating action knowledge and LLMs for task planning and situation handling in open worlds	9
Autonomous foraging with a pack of robots based on repulsion, attraction and influence	8
LTA: Local tangent based A for optimal path planning	8
Influencing leading and following in human–robot teams	8
A new meta-module design for efficient reconfiguration of modular robots	8
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	8
Decentralised coverage of a large structure using flocking of autonomous agents having a dynamic hierarchy model	7
An efficient RRT-based motion planning algorithm for autonomous underwater vehicles under cylindrical sampling constraints	7
Quantitative analysis of robot gesticulation behavior	7
Automated camera-exposure control for robust localization in varying illumination environments	7
An improved kinematic model for skid-steered wheeled platforms	7
Scalable multirobot planning for informed spatial sampling	7
Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots	7
Autonomous assembly planning of demonstrated skills with reinforcement learning in simulation	7
Autonomous search of an airborne release in urban environments using informed tree planning	7
Embodied scene description	6
Heterogeneous robot teams for modeling and prediction of multiscale environmental processes	6
Manipulation at optimum locations for maximum force transmission with mobile robots under environmental disturbances	6
Topological representation of cloth state for robot manipulation	6
Stochastic spatio-temporal optimization for control and co-design of systems in robotics and applied physics	6
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	6
Trajectory adaptation of biomimetic equilibrium point for stable locomotion of a large-size hexapod robot	6
Robust circumnavigation of a heterogeneous multi-agent system	6
Transfer learning of coverage functions via invariant properties in the fourier domain	6
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	6
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	5

Game tree search for minimizing detectability and maximizing visibility	5
Learning temporal logic formulas from suboptimal demonstrations: theory and experiments	5
Collaborative programming of robotic task decisions and recovery behaviors	5
Appearance-based loop closure detection combining lines and learned points for low-textured environments	5
Long-horizon humanoid navigation planning using traversability estimates and previous experience	5
Motion planning for a pair of tethered robots	5
A sketch is worth a thousand navigational instructions	5
Enhancing the morphological segmentation of microscopic fossils through Localized Topology-Aware Edge Detection	5
RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations	5
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	5
Estimating boundary dynamics using robotic sensor networks with pointwise measurements	4
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	4
Few-shot re-identification of the speaker by social robots	4
Semi-dense visual-inertial odometry and mapping for computationally constrained platforms	4
User intent estimation during robot learning using physical human robot interaction primitives	4
Affordance-based robot object retrieval	4
Correspondence identification for collaborative multi-robot perception under uncertainty	4
A behavior-based framework for safe deployment of humanoid robots	4
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	4
Search and rescue with sparsely connected swarms	4
An efficient and direct method for trajectory optimization of robots constrained by contact kinematics and forces	4
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	4
Adaptive optimal controller design for an unbalanced UAV with slung load	4
A fully distributed multi-robot navigation method without pre-allocating target positions	3
Multi-robot geometric task-and-motion planning for collaborative manipulation tasks	3
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	3
Bayes–Nash: Bayesian inference for Nash equilibrium selection in human-robot parallel play	3
Robust inverse dynamics by evaluating Newton–Euler equations with respect to a moving reference and measuring angular acceleration	3
Agile and stable running locomotion control for an untethered and one-legged hopping robot	3
Learning rewards from exploratory demonstrations using probabilistic temporal ranking	3
Social crowd navigation of a mobile robot based on human trajectory prediction and hybrid sensing	3
ASAP: adaptive transmission scheme for online processing of event-based algorithms	3
Reinforcement learning for shared autonomy drone landings	3
Hierarchical planning with state abstractions for temporal task specifications	3
Underwater visual mapping of curved ship hull surface using stereo vision	3
Search-based configuration planning and motion control algorithms for a snake-like robot performing load-intensive operations	3
Locomotion generation for quadruped robots on challenging terrains via quadratic programming	3
Compiling CNNs with Cain: focal-plane processing for robot navigation	3
Analysis and acceleration of TORM: optimization-based planning for path-wise inverse kinematics	3
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	3
Image based Localization under large perspective difference between Sfm and SLAM using split sim(3) optimization	3
Partial caging: a clearance-based definition, datasets, and deep learning	3