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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Complex environment localization system using complementary ceiling and ground map information	98
Humans as path-finders for mobile robots using teach-by-showing navigation	73
Sequence-based visual place recognition: a scale-space approach for boundary detection	55
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	50
Semantic anomaly detection with large language models	46
Reinforcement learning based autonomous multi-rotor landing on moving platforms	37
Search-based configuration planning and motion control algorithms for a snake-like robot performing load-intensive operations	35
Laplacian regularized motion tomography for underwater vehicle flow mapping with sporadic localization measurements	35
Point-based metric and topological localisation between lidar and overhead imagery	32
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	32
Pseudo-trilateral adversarial training for domain adaptive traversability prediction	30
Semantic scan context: a novel semantic-based loop-closure method for LiDAR SLAM	29
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	26
A hybrid inductive learning-based and deductive reasoning-based 3-D path planning method in complex environments	25
Agile and stable running locomotion control for an untethered and one-legged hopping robot	24
Efficiently finding poses for multiple grasp types with partial point clouds by uncoupling grasp shape and scale	23
Hierarchical topometric representation of 3D robotic maps	22
Heterogeneous graph attention networks for scalable multi-robot scheduling with temporospatial constraints	22
Calibration method for a breast intervention robot based on four-dimensional ultrasound image guidance	22
Motion-based communication for robotic swarms in exploration missions	20
A penalized batch-Bayesian approach to informative path planning for decentralized swarm robotic search	20
Reinforcement learning with model-based feedforward inputs for robotic table tennis	20
Manipulation at optimum locations for maximum force transmission with mobile robots under environmental disturbances	20
Navigating by touch: haptic Monte Carlo localization via geometric sensing and terrain classification	20
High-frame rate homography and visual odometry by tracking binary features from the focal plane	18

Co-design of communication and machine inference for cloud robotics	17
Urban localization based on aerial imagery by correcting projection distortion	17
Scalable multirobot planning for informed spatial sampling	16
AlphaPilot: autonomous drone racing	15
Partial caging: a clearance-based definition, datasets, and deep learning	15
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	15
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	14
Bridging the reality gap in drone swarm development through mixed reality	14
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	14
Dynamic multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty and temporal constraints	13
Towards neuromorphic FPGA-based infrastructures for a robotic arm	13
AEB-RRT: an adaptive extension bidirectional RRT algorithm	12
A Bayesian tracker for synthesizing mobile robot behaviour from demonstration	12
Regulated pure pursuit for robot path tracking	11
An empowerment-based solution to robotic manipulation tasks with sparse rewards	11
Herding stochastic autonomous agents via local control rules and online target selection strategies	11
Eigen-factors a bilevel optimization for plane SLAM of 3D point clouds	11
Editorial	10
SpaTiaL: monitoring and planning of robotic tasks using spatio-temporal logic specifications	10
Robust bounded control scheme for quadrotor vehicles under high dynamic disturbances	10
Learning and planning with logical automata	10
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	10
Editor’s Note	9
Annotation scaffolds for manipulating articulated objects	9
Deep introspective SLAM: deep reinforcement learning based approach to avoid tracking failure in visual SLAM	9
Formation control for autonomous fixed-wing air vehicles with strict speed constraints	8
External force observer aided push recovery for torque-controlled biped robots	8
Fast nonlinear risk assessment for autonomous vehicles using learned conditional probabilistic models of agent futures	8
Correction: Planning under uncertainty for safe robot exploration using gaussian process prediction	7
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	7
Continuous planning for inertial-aided systems	7
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	7
Affordance-based robot object retrieval	7
Adaptive submodular inverse reinforcement learning for spatial search and map exploration	7
A concurrent learning approach to monocular vision range regulation of leader/follower systems	7
Continuous control actions learning and adaptation for robotic manipulation through reinforcement learning	7