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Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 60. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Transactions on Robotics Publication Information	2762
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity	857
Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots	307
Passivity-Based Control of Distributed Teleoperation With Velocity/Force Manipulability Optimization	245
Speeding up Routing Schedules on Aisle Graphs With Single Access	194
Ultimate Passivity: Balancing Performance and Stability in Physical Human–Robot Interaction	192
Biomimetic Underwater Soft Snake Robot: Self-Motion Sensing and Online Gait Control	182
Majorization Minimization Methods for Distributed Pose Graph Optimization	178
Fast Path Planning Through Large Collections of Safe Boxes	159
Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality- and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts	157
Non-repetitive-path Iterative Learning and Control for Human-guided Robotic Operations on Unknown Surfaces	154
A Lightweight Powered Hip Exoskeleton With Parallel Actuation for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Assistance	153
Innovative Design of Multi-functional Supernumerary Robotic Limbs with Ellipsoid Workspace Optimization	151
Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot	150
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of Rigid Bodies	140
Stabilization of Robot-Environment Interaction Through Generalized Scattering Techniques	132
Associating Uncertainty to Extended Poses for on Lie Group IMU Preintegration With Rotating Earth	127
Type-2 Fuzzy Model-Based Movement Primitives for Imitation Learning	127
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System Subject to Parameter Uncertainty	126
Kinematic Modeling and Characterization of Soft Parallel Robots	124
Relative Localizability and Localization for Multirobot Systems	123
Singularity-Free Guiding Vector Field for Robot Navigation	117
Rhythm-Based Power Allocation Strategy of Bionic Tail-Flapping for Propulsion Enhancement	113
Resilient Trajectory Propagation in Multirobot Networks	111
Stability Analysis of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots and Application to Active Softening	106

Goal-Conditioned Model Simplification for 1-D and 2-D Deformable Object Manipulation	106
CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System Using Contrast Maximization	101
A 5-mm Untethered Crawling Robot via Self-Excited Electrostatic Vibration	101
Learning a Flexible Neural Energy Function With a Unique Minimum for Globally Stable and Accurate Demonstration Learning	100
Autonomous Synthesis of Self-Aligning Knee Joint Exoskeleton Mechanisms	100
A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bioinspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-Coupled Wingbeat Pattern	98
Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation-Based AAN Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots Driven by Series Elastic Actuators	98
Bio-Inspired Rapid Escape and Tight Body Flip on an At-Scale Flapping Wing Hummingbird Robot Via Reinforcement Learning	96
2022 Index IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol. 38	93
IEEE Transactions on Robotics	92
Uncertainty-Aware Hand–Eye Calibration	92
CURE: Simulation-Augmented Autotuning in Robotics	91
Data-Driven Momentum Observers With Physically Consistent Gaussian Processes	91
Tight Fusion of Events and Inertial Measurements for Direct Velocity Estimation	90
iKalibr: Unified Targetless Spatiotemporal Calibration for Resilient Integrated Inertial Systems	86
Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling	85
Versatile Tasks on Integrated Aerial Platforms Using Only Onboard Sensors: Control, Estimation, and Validation	85
A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems	83
End-Effector Cartesian Velocity Control for Redundant Loader Cranes Using Reinforcement learning	80
Emergent Humanoid Robot Motion Synergies Derived From the Momentum Equilibrium Principle and the Distribution of Momentum	80
Active Exploitation of Redundancies in Reconfigurable Multirobot Systems	80
Table of Contents	79
From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers	78
Human to Robot Hand Motion Mapping Methods: Review and Classification	78
Online Camera–LiDAR Calibration Monitoring and Rotational Drift Tracking	78
CAT-ORA: Collision-Aware Time-Optimal Formation Reshaping for Efficient Robot Coordination in 3-D Environments	77
Statistically Distinct Plans for Multiobjective Task Assignment	76
Modeling Electromagnetic Navigation Systems	74
Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Subjected to Planar Tip Contact	70
Behavior Cloning-Based Robot Active Object Detection With Automatically Generated Data and Revision Method	69
Autonomous Cave Surveying With an Aerial Robot	66
Dense Robotic Packing of Irregular and Novel 3D Objects	66
Gaussian-Process-Based Control of Underactuated Balance Robots With Guaranteed Performance	66
Distributed Prediction of Unsafe Reconfiguration Scenarios of Modular Robotic Programmable Matter	65
From Adaptive Locomotion to Predictive Action Selection – Cognitive Control for a Six-Legged Walker	61