OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 53. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
ORB-SLAM3: An Accurate Open-Source Library for Visual, Visual–Inertial, and Multimap SLAM	1866
FAST-LIO2: Fast Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry	466
TEASER: Fast and Certifiable Point Cloud Registration	393
Past, Present, and Future of Aerial Robotic Manipulators	210
GVINS: Tightly Coupled GNSS–Visual–Inertial Fusion for Smooth and Consistent State Estimation	166
A Review of Tactile Information: Perception and Action Through Touch	156
RAPTOR: Robust and Perception-Aware Trajectory Replanning for Quadrotor Fast Flight	135
Motion Planning Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Learning-Based and Classical Motion Planners	129
Data-Driven Control of Soft Robots Using Koopman Operator Theory	117
Geometrically Constrained Trajectory Optimization for Multicopters	112
Soft Robotic Suits: State of the Art, Core Technologies, and Open Challenges	111
Event-Based Stereo Visual Odometry	110
Independent Control Strategy of Multiple Magnetic Flexible Millirobots for Position Control and Path Following	108
Scan Context++: Structural Place Recognition Robust to Rotation and Lateral Variations in Urban Environments	108
Design and Validation of a Powered Knee–Ankle Prosthesis With High-Torque, Low-Impedance Actuators	101
Representation-Free Model Predictive Control for Dynamic Motions in Quadrupeds	99
LCDNet: Deep Loop Closure Detection and Point Cloud Registration for LiDAR SLAM	94
Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview	92
Active Interaction Force Control for Contact-Based Inspection With a Fully Actuated Aerial Vehicle	92
Dynamics of Continuum and Soft Robots: A Strain Parameterization Based Approach	92
Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems	91
PoseRBPF: A Rao–Blackwellized Particle Filter for 6-D Object Pose Tracking	90
Object Handovers: A Review for Robotics	87
A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight	86
A Multimodal, Enveloping Soft Gripper: Shape Conformation, Bioinspired Adhesion, and Expansion-Driven Suction	83

Convergent Multiagent Formation Control With Collision Avoidance	81
Human-in-the-Loop Control of Soft Exosuits Using Impedance Learning on Different Terrains	79
MADER: Trajectory Planner in Multiagent and Dynamic Environments	74
Motion Planning for Quadrupedal Locomotion: Coupled Planning, Terrain Mapping, and Whole-Body Control	74
Game-Theoretic Planning for Self-Driving Cars in Multivehicle Competitive Scenarios	72
A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers	71
Simultaneous Calibration of Multicoordinates for a Dual-Robot System by Solving the AXB = YCZ Problem	71
Flow: A Modular Learning Framework for Mixed Autonomy Traffic	70
Slip Detection for Grasp Stabilization With a Multifingered Tactile Robot Hand	69
Model Predictive Contouring Control for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Flight	68
Inchworm Inspired Multimodal Soft Robots With Crawling, Climbing, and Transitioning Locomotion	67
A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems	67
Energy Generating Electronic Skin With Intrinsic Tactile Sensing Without Touch Sensors	66
Proximity Perception in Human-Centered Robotics: A Survey on Sensing Systems and Applications	63
Enhancing the Universality of a Pneumatic Gripper via Continuously Adjustable Initial Grasp Postures	63
FASTER: Fast and Safe Trajectory Planner for Navigation in Unknown Environments	62
Robust Odometry and Mapping for Multi-LiDAR Systems With Online Extrinsic Calibration	61
Cat-Like Jumping and Landing of Legged Robots in Low Gravity Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	60
Derivative-Based Koopman Operators for Real-Time Control of Robotic Systems	60
A Survey on Swarm Microrobotics	60
DefSLAM: Tracking and Mapping of Deforming Scenes From Monocular Sequences	59
Deep Learning Approaches to Grasp Synthesis: A Review	57
Collision Resilient Insect-Scale Soft-Actuated Aerial Robots With High Agility	57
Safe Control With Learned Certificates: A Survey of Neural Lyapunov, Barrier, and Contraction Methods for Robotics and Control	56
Self-Supervised Visual Terrain Classification From Unsupervised Acoustic Feature Learning	55
Unseen Object Instance Segmentation for Robotic Environments	54
A Backdrivable Kinematically Redundant (6+3)-Degree-of-Freedom Hybrid Parallel Robot for Intuitive Sensorless Physical Human–Robot Interaction	54
Lower-Limb Exoskeleton With Variable-Structure Series Elastic Actuators: Phase-Synchronized Force Control for Gait Asymmetry Correction	54
VILENS: Visual, Inertial, Lidar, and Leg Odometry for All-Terrain Legged Robots	53
Deep Neural Network Based Electrical Impedance Tomographic Sensing Methodology for Large-Area Robotic Tactile Sensing	53
Teleoperation of Humanoid Robots: A Survey	53