OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Autonomous Robots is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial - Robotics: Science and Systems 2022	193
Towards balanced behavior cloning from imbalanced datasets	190
Robust robotic exploration and mapping using generative occupancy map synthesis	98
A novel framework for generalizing dynamic movement primitives under kinematic constraints	94
Decentralized Information-driven Approach for Tracking Multiple Moving Targets with Multi-Robot Networks	90
Distributed autonomous robotic systems 2024	82
Wild visual navigation: fast traversability learning via pre-trained models and online self-supervision	73
TIP: A trust inference and propagation model in multi-human multi-robot teams	68
Image-based Navigation in Real-World Environments via Multiple Mid-level Representations: Fusion Models, Benchmark and Efficient Evaluation	67
Optimal policies for autonomous navigation in strong currents using fast marching trees	54
Distributed swarm collision avoidance based on angular calculations	53
Cooperative estimation and control of a diffusion-based spatiotemporal process using mobile sensors and actuators	43
Vision-based manipulation from single human video with open-world object graphs	42
DiSECt: a differentiable simulator for parameter inference and control in robotic cutting	40
Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies	32
Provident vehicle detection at night for advanced driver assistance systems	23
Method of evolving junction on optimal path planning in flows fields	22
Tactile-based object retrieval from granular media	21
Visual localization in 3D maps: comparing point cloud, mesh, and NeRF representations	20
Dynamic event-triggered integrated task and motion planning for process-aware source seeking	19
Visuo-haptic object perception for robots: an overview	18
Multi-criteria metric to evaluate motion planners for underwater intervention	18
Persistent multi-resource coverage with heterogeneous multi-robot teams	18
Planned synchronization for multi-robot systems with active observations	18
Multi-object active search and tracking by multiple agents in untrusted, dynamically changing environments	18

Correction: Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes	17
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	16
ASAPs: asynchronous hybrid self-reconfiguration algorithm for porous modular robotic structures	16
Correction: Adaptive hybrid local-global sampling for fast informed sampling-based optimal path planning	15
Power generation performance of a spherical robot with a pendulum in an amphibious environment	15
Enhanced spatial distribution for robust Gaussian SLAM with view-consistency optimization	14
Multirotor nonlinear model predictive control based on visual servoing of evolving features	14
A tree-based exploration method: utilizing the topology of the map as the basis of goal selection	14
Effective tracking of unknown clustered targets using a distributed team of mobile robots	14
Task-oriented overlapping coalition formation: a game-theoretic framework for heterogeneous UAV task allocation	13
Integrative biomechanics of a human–robot carrying task: implications for future collaborative work	13
Agile assistive hospital robot for suboptimal Task execution in dynamic environments	13
Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy	13
Human-drone collaboration via mixed-reality for efficient navigation and interaction in constrained environments: a comprehensive user case study	12
Reinforcement learning with imitative behaviors for humanoid robots navigation: synchronous planning and control	12
Collocation methods for second and higher order systems	12
Es-cbf: an energy sufficiency extension for sample based path planners to enable long term autonomy	11
Editorial note from the publisher	11
TNES: terrain traversability mapping, navigation and excavation system for autonomous excavators on worksite	11
Risk-averse traversal of graphs with stochastic and correlated edge costs for safe global planetary mobility	11
Unsupervised dissimilarity-based fault detection method for autonomous mobile robots	11
FIMD: fast isolated marker detection for UV-based visual relative localisation in agile UAV swarms	11
Design and control of BRAVER: a bipedal robot actuated via proprioceptive electric motors	10
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments	10
HeRo 2.0: a low-cost robot for swarm robotics research	10
A self-guided approach for navigation in a minimalistic foraging robotic swarm	10
Mori-zwanzig approach for belief abstraction with application to belief space planning	10
Aerial robots persistent monitoring and target detection: deployment and assessment in the field	10
Estimating map completeness in robot exploration	10