OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Autonomous Robots is 9. 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
Visual localization in 3D maps: comparing point cloud, mesh, and NeRF representations	19
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	19
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	18
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
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	15
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	14
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
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
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
Task-oriented overlapping coalition formation: a game-theoretic framework for heterogeneous UAV task allocation	12
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
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
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
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
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
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