OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine is 24. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Vine Robots	95
Design Optimization of Soft Robots: A Review of the State of the Art	86
Adaptive Model-Based Myoelectric Control for a Soft Wearable Arm Exosuit: A New Generation of Wearable Robot Control	85
An Experimental Evaluation of the Proto-MATE: A Novel Ergonomic Upper-Limb Exoskeleton to Reduce Workers' Physical Strain	65
Fully Actuated Multirotor UAVs: A Literature Review	57
Accelerating Surgical Robotics Research: A Review of 10 Years With the da Vinci Research Kit	55
Challenges and Outlook in Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects	46
Medical Robots for Infectious Diseases: Lessons and Challenges from the COVID-19 Pandemic	46
The Franka Emika Robot: A Reference Platform for Robotics Research and Education	45
Robotic Waste Sorting Technology: Toward a Vision-Based Categorization System for the Industrial Robotic Separation of Recyclable Waste	44
Building an Aerial–Ground Robotics System for Precision Farming: An Adaptable Solution	42
Smart Collaborative Systems for Enabling Flexible and Ergonomic Work Practices [Industry Activities]	40
Gaussians on Riemannian Manifolds: Applications for Robot Learning and Adaptive Control	37
A Novel Soft Robotic Hand Design With Human-Inspired Soft Palm: Achieving a Great Diversity of Grasps	35
UV-C Mobile Robots with Optimized Path Planning: Algorithm Design and On-Field Measurements to Improve Surface Disinfection Against SARS-CoV-2	35
The Role of the Hercules Autonomous Vehicle During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autonomous Logistic Vehicle for Contactless Goods Transportation	33
Multifingered Grasp Planning via Inference in Deep Neural Networks: Outperforming Sampling by Learning Differentiable Models	33
Room Temperature Self-Healing in Soft Pneumatic Robotics: Autonomous Self-Healing in a Diels-Alder Polymer Network	33
Underwater Mobile Manipulation: A Soft Arm on a Benthic Legged Robot	32
Optimal Deep Learning for Robot Touch: Training Accurate Pose Models of 3D Surfaces and Edges	31
A Compact, Lightweight Robotic Ankle-Foot Prosthesis: Featuring a Powered Polycentric Design	31
Expanding Pouch Motor Patterns for Programmable Soft Bending Actuation: Enabling Soft Robotic System Adaptations	28
Planetary Exploration With Robot Teams: Implementing Higher Autonomy With Swarm Intelligence	27
DQ Robotics: A Library for Robot Modeling and Control	26