OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Autonomous Robots is 7. 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
Network offloading policies for cloud robotics: a learning-based approach	35
Continuous control actions learning and adaptation for robotic manipulation through reinforcement learning	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
How to train your differentiable filter	22
Decentralized probabilistic multi-robot collision avoidance using buffered uncertainty-aware Voronoi cells	22
A novel adaptive iterative learning control approach and human-in-the-loop control pattern for lower limb rehabilitation robot in disturbances environment	22
Decentralized swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles for search and rescue operations without explicit communication	21
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
VisuoSpatial Foresight for physical sequential fabric manipulation	20
Learning latent actions to control assistive robots	20

A feasibility-driven approach to control-limited DDP	18
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	17
Herding by caging: a formation-based motion planning framework for guiding mobile agents	17
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	16
RoLoMa: robust loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arms	15
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
Sampling-based planning for non-myopic multi-robot information gathering	14
Deep introspective SLAM: deep reinforcement learning based approach to avoid tracking failure in visual SLAM	14
Semantic anomaly detection with large language models	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
Expert Intervention Learning	11
A visibility-based pursuit-evasion game between two nonholonomic robots in environments with obstacles	11
Hierarchical topometric representation of 3D robotic maps	11
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
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
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
Imitation learning-based framework for learning 6-D linear compliant motions	9
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
Autonomous foraging with a pack of robots based on repulsion, attraction and influence	8
LTA: Local tangent based A for optimal path planning	8
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
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