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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity	2498
Memory Clustering Using Persistent Homology for Multimodality- and Discontinuity-Sensitive Learning of Optimal Control Warm-Starts	748
Majorization Minimization Methods for Distributed Pose Graph Optimization	270
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System Subject to Parameter Uncertainty	217
Resilient Trajectory Propagation in Multirobot Networks	182
IEEE Transactions on Robotics Publication Information	170
A Lightweight Powered Hip Exoskeleton With Parallel Actuation for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Assistance	161
Speeding up Routing Schedules on Aisle Graphs With Single Access	160
Ultimate Passivity: Balancing Performance and Stability in Physical Human–Robot Interaction	150
Passivity-Based Control of Distributed Teleoperation With Velocity/Force Manipulability Optimization	147
Bio-Inspired Rapid Escape and Tight Body Flip on an At-Scale Flapping Wing Hummingbird Robot Via Reinforcement Learning	147
Biomimetic Underwater Soft Snake Robot: Self-Motion Sensing and Online Gait Control	143
Stability Analysis of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots and Application to Active Softening	137
CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System Using Contrast Maximization	131
Stabilization of Robot-Environment Interaction Through Generalized Scattering Techniques	127
Autonomous Synthesis of Self-Aligning Knee Joint Exoskeleton Mechanisms	121
Kinematic Modeling and Characterization of Soft Parallel Robots	121
A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bioinspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-Coupled Wingbeat Pattern	119
Learning a Flexible Neural Energy Function With a Unique Minimum for Globally Stable and Accurate Demonstration Learning	117
Fast Path Planning Through Large Collections of Safe Boxes	116
Decentralized Adaptive Control for Collaborative Manipulation of Rigid Bodies	111
Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots	111
Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot	107
A 5-mm Untethered Crawling Robot via Self-Excited Electrostatic Vibration	107
Associating Uncertainty to Extended Poses for on Lie Group IMU Preintegration With Rotating Earth	105

Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation-Based AAN Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots Driven by Series Elastic Actuators	105
A Sequential Composition Framework for Coordinating Multirobot Behaviors	101
Fail-Safe Motion Planning for Online Verification of Autonomous Vehicles Using Convex Optimization	98
Type-2 Fuzzy Model-Based Movement Primitives for Imitation Learning	90
Relative Localizability and Localization for Multirobot Systems	90
iKalibr: Unified Targetless Spatiotemporal Calibration for Resilient Integrated Inertial Systems	90
Singularity-Free Guiding Vector Field for Robot Navigation	90
2022 Index IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol. 38	88
Design and Fabrication of Concentric Tube Robots: A Survey	87
IEEE Transactions on Robotics	85
Uncertainty-Aware Hand–Eye Calibration	83
Dense Robotic Packing of Irregular and Novel 3D Objects	83
Stable Motion Primitives via Imitation and Contrastive Learning	81
Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling	80
Soft Gripper Design Based on the Integration of Flat Dry Adhesive, Soft Actuator, and Microspine	80
Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Subjected to Planar Tip Contact	80
Human to Robot Hand Motion Mapping Methods: Review and Classification	78
Autonomous Cave Surveying With an Aerial Robot	78
CURE: Simulation-Augmented Autotuning in Robotics	77
Data-Driven Momentum Observers With Physically Consistent Gaussian Processes	75
Physical Human-Robot Interaction With a Tethered Aerial Vehicle: Application to a Force-Based Human Guiding Problem	75
Gaussian-Process-Based Control of Underactuated Balance Robots With Guaranteed Performance	74
Diffraction- and Reflection-Aware Multiple Sound Source Localization	73
Modularization of 2- and 3-DoF Coupled Tendon-Driven Joints	72
Statistically Distinct Plans for Multiobjective Task Assignment	70
From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers	68
A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems	68
Tight Fusion of Events and Inertial Measurements for Direct Velocity Estimation	67
Incremental Non-Gaussian Inference for SLAM Using Normalizing Flows	67
End-Effector Cartesian Velocity Control for Redundant Loader Cranes Using Reinforcement learning	65
Active Exploitation of Redundancies in Reconfigurable Multirobot Systems	65
Online Camera–LiDAR Calibration Monitoring and Rotational Drift Tracking	65
Emergent Humanoid Robot Motion Synergies Derived From the Momentum Equilibrium Principle and the Distribution of Momentum	64
Modeling Electromagnetic Navigation Systems	61
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