IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Papers
(The median citation count of IEEE Transactions on Robotics is 9. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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IEEE Transactions on Robotics Publication Information1402
Kinematic Modeling and Characterization of Soft Parallel Robots346
Type-2 Fuzzy Model-Based Movement Primitives for Imitation Learning333
Ultimate Passivity: Balancing Performance and Stability in Physical Human–Robot Interaction286
Goal-Conditioned Model Simplification for 1-D and 2-D Deformable Object Manipulation265
Passivity-Based Control of Distributed Teleoperation With Velocity/Force Manipulability Optimization263
Stability Analysis of Tendon Driven Continuum Robots and Application to Active Softening228
A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bioinspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-Coupled Wingbeat Pattern227
Reinforcement Learning of CPG-Regulated Locomotion Controller for a Soft Snake Robot218
Hierarchical Multimodal Motion Control of Magnetic Pivot-Walking Millirobotic-Grippers for Autonomous Target Acquisition in Complex Terrains215
Complete Autonomous Robotic Nasopharyngeal Swab System with Evaluation on a Stochastically Moving Phantom Head214
Model-free Magnetic Servoing for Pose Control of Capsule Robots213
Learning a Flexible Neural Energy Function With a Unique Minimum for Globally Stable and Accurate Demonstration Learning209
Material Scrunching Enables Working Channels in Miniaturized Vine-Inspired Robots198
Relative Localizability and Localization for Multirobot Systems197
Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation-Based AAN Control for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots Driven by Series Elastic Actuators194
Fast Path Planning Through Large Collections of Safe Boxes191
FilMBot: A High-Speed Soft Parallel Robotic Micromanipulator171
A Lightweight Powered Hip Exoskeleton With Parallel Actuation for Frontal and Sagittal Plane Assistance169
Probabilistic Modeling and Control for Multi-UAV Search Over Uneven Terrain162
Rhythm-Based Power Allocation Strategy of Bionic Tail-Flapping for Propulsion Enhancement143
A MagsL-HUD Endoscopic System for Magnetic Compression Anastomosis Surgery in Unstructured Endoluminal Environment141
Equilibria, Stability, and Sensitivity for the Aerial Suspended Beam Robotic System Subject to Parameter Uncertainty140
Autonomous Synthesis of Self-Aligning Knee Joint Exoskeleton Mechanisms138
Robust Quadrupedal Jumping With Impact-Aware Landing: Exploiting Parallel Elasticity128
Nonrepetitive-Path Iterative Learning and Control for Human-Guided Robotic Operations on Unknown Surfaces126
Majorization Minimization Methods for Distributed Pose Graph Optimization115
Innovative Design of Multifunctional Supernumerary Robotic Limbs With Ellipsoid Workspace Optimization115
CMax-SLAM: Event-Based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System Using Contrast Maximization114
Biomimetic Underwater Soft Snake Robot: Self-Motion Sensing and Online Gait Control113
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A New Expression for the Passivity Bound for a Class of Sampled-Data Systems108
iKalibr: Unified Targetless Spatiotemporal Calibration for Resilient Integrated Inertial Systems105
Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning with Finite Sampling102
CURE: Simulation-Augmented Autotuning in Robotics99
Shoulder-sideWINDER (Shoulder-side Wearable INDustrial Ergonomic Robot): Design and Evaluation of Shoulder Wearable Robot With Mechanisms to Compensate for Joint Misalignment97
Gaussian-Process-Based Control of Underactuated Balance Robots With Guaranteed Performance95
End-Effector Cartesian Velocity Control for Redundant Loader Cranes Using Reinforcement learning95
Optimizing Human–Exoskeleton Physical Interaction Through Spatial Trajectory Adaptation91
Analytical Modeling of a Soft Pneu-Net Actuator Subjected to Planar Tip Contact91
Statistically Distinct Plans for Multiobjective Task Assignment89
Design and Fabrication of Concentric Tube Robots: A Survey83
Online Adaptation Framework Enables Personalization of Exoskeleton Assistance During Locomotion in Patients Affected by Stroke82
From Sim to Real: A Pipeline for Training and Deploying Traffic Smoothing Cruise Controllers81
Sensitivity-Aware Model Predictive Control for Robots With Parametric Uncertainty81
TensorTouch: Calibration of Tactile Sensors for High Resolution Stress Tensor and Deformation for Dexterous Manipulation80
Versatile Tasks on Integrated Aerial Platforms Using Only Onboard Sensors: Control, Estimation, and Validation78
CAT-ORA: Collision-Aware Time-Optimal Formation Reshaping for Efficient Robot Coordination in 3-D Environments78
Incremental Non-Gaussian Inference for SLAM Using Normalizing Flows78
Uncertainty-Aware Hand–Eye Calibration78
Diffraction- and Reflection-Aware Multiple Sound Source Localization78
Using Fiber Optic Bundles to Miniaturize Vision-Based Tactile Sensors76
Online Camera–LiDAR Calibration Monitoring and Rotational Drift Tracking75
Data-Driven Momentum Observers With Physically Consistent Gaussian Processes75
DiffOG: Differentiable Policy Trajectory Optimization With Generalizability75
Human to Robot Hand Motion Mapping Methods: Review and Classification74
Automatic Navigation of Microswarms for Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance73
A Comparative Study of Nonlinear MPC and Differential-Flatness-Based Control for Quadrotor Agile Flight72
Stable Motion Primitives via Imitation and Contrastive Learning72
Behavior Cloning-Based Robot Active Object Detection With Automatically Generated Data and Revision Method71
Tight Fusion of Events and Inertial Measurements for Direct Velocity Estimation71
Parallel MPPI With Gradient-Velocity Modulated SDF Cost for High-Performance Real-Time Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance by Robot Manipulators69
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Can Not Touch This: Real-Time, Safe Motion Planning and Control for Manipulators Under Uncertainty66
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Leveraging Probabilistic Meshes for Robust LiDAR Mapping66
REFINE: Reachability-Based Trajectory Design Using Robust Feedback Linearization and Zonotopes65
Autonomous Tomato Harvesting With Top–Down Fusion Network for Limited Data64
Auxiliary Control to Avoid Undesirable Equilibria in Constrained Quadratic Programs for Trajectory Tracking Applications64
A Sliding Window Filter With GNSS-State Constraint for RTK-Visual-Inertial Navigation64
Privacy-Preserving Robotic Perception for Object Detection in Curious Cloud Robotics63
Pose and Motion Estimation of Free-Flying Objects: Aerodynamics, Constrained Filtering, and Graph-Based Feature Tracking61
Formulating the Unicycle on the Sphere Path Planning Problem as a Linear Time-Varying System61
Toward Predicting Collective Performance in Multirobot Teams61
In Situ Calibration of Six-Axis Force–Torque Sensors for Industrial Robots With Tilting Base61
Delayed Self-Reinforcement to Reduce Deformation During Decentralized Flexible-Object Transport61
A Multifingered Robotic Hand With Fiber-Optic Force and Tactile Sensing for Remote Manipulation60
Aerial Swarm Defense Using Interception and Herding Strategies60
Physics-Informed Token Prediction-Based Dynamic Modeling and High-Speed Feedforward Tracking Control of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators60
KT-BT: A Framework for Knowledge Transfer Through Behavior Trees in Multirobot Systems60
Real-Time Sampling-Based Safe Motion Planning for Robotic Manipulators in Dynamic Environments59
Self-Triggered Coverage Control for Mobile Sensors58
A Rotation–Translation Decoupled Solution for Visual–Inertial Initialization and Online Spatial–Temporal Calibration58
Singularity-Free Lagrange-Poincaré Equations on Lie Groups for Vehicle-Manipulator Systems57
Creating Star Worlds: Reshaping the Robot Workspace for Online Motion Planning57
Direct Kinematic Singularities and Stability Analysis of Sagging Cable-Driven Parallel Robots57
Generative Graphical Inverse Kinematics57
Optimization-Based Control for Dynamic Legged Robots56
Design, Modeling, and Optimization of Hydraulically Powered Double-Joint Soft Robotic Fish56
Distributed Coverage Control for Time-Varying Spatial Processes56
Obstacle-Aided Trajectory Control of a Quadrupedal Robot Through Sequential Gait Composition56
Haptic Search With the Smart Suction Cup on Adversarial Objects54
RBO Hand 3: A Platform for Soft Dexterous Manipulation54
TacFlex: Multimode Tactile Imprints Simulation for Visuotactile Sensors With Coating Patterns54
Implicit Time-Integration Simulation of Robots With Rigid Bodies and Cosserat Rods Based on a Newton–Euler Recursive Algorithm54
Ambilateral Activity Recognition and Continuous Adaptation With a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis54
Constrained Probabilistic Movement Primitives for Robot Trajectory Adaptation54
Multimodal and Force-Matched Imitation Learning With a See-Through Visuotactile Sensor53
A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers53
Safe Control With Learned Certificates: A Survey of Neural Lyapunov, Barrier, and Contraction Methods for Robotics and Control53
Adaptive Bézier Degree Reduction and Splitting for Computationally Efficient Motion Planning53
Splat-Nav: Safe Real-Time Robot Navigation in Gaussian Splatting Maps52
Robotic Tool Tracking Under Partially Visible Kinematic Chain: A Unified Approach50
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Robot Proficiency Self-Assessment Using Assumption-Alignment Tracking50
MS-VRO: A Multistage Visual-Millimeter Wave Radar Fusion Odometry50
On Free Velocity Cones of Narrow Passages of High-DoF Kinematic Chains50
BioSLAM: A Bioinspired Lifelong Memory System for General Place Recognition49
Autonomous Vehicle Localization Without Prior High-Definition Map49
Data-Driven Batch Localization and SLAM Using Koopman Linearization48
On the Comparability and Optimal Aggressiveness of the Adversarial Scenario-Based Safety Testing of Robots48
Damping Selection for Cartesian Impedance Control With Dynamic Response Modulation48
An Analytical Approach for Dealing With Explicit Physical Constraints in Excitation Optimization Problems of Dynamic Identification48
Let us Make a Splan: Risk-Aware Trajectory Optimization in a Normalized Gaussian Splat47
Embedded Magnetic Sensing for Feedback Control of Soft HASEL Actuators47
A Static Modeling and Evaluation Framework for Soft Continuum Robots With Reinforced Chambers47
Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks47
Traversability-Aware Legged Navigation by Learning From Real-World Visual Data47
Safe and Agile Transportation of Cable-Suspended Payload via Multiple Aerial Robots46
High-Performance Six-DOF Flight Control of the Bee$^{++}$: An Inclined-Stroke-Plane Approach46
Enabling Visual Action Planning for Object Manipulation Through Latent Space Roadmap46
LIGO: A Tightly Coupled LiDAR-Inertial-GNSS Odometry Based on a Hierarchy Fusion Framework for Global Localization With Real-Time Mapping46
ACSim: A Novel Acoustic Camera Simulator With Recursive Ray Tracing, Artifact Modeling, and Ground Truthing45
Choosing Stiffness and Damping for Optimal Impedance Planning45
AsynEIO: Asynchronous Monocular Event-Inertial Odometry Using Gaussian Process Regression45
An Energy-Based Control Architecture for Shared Autonomy45
HARMONIOUS—Human-Like Reactive Motion Control and Multimodal Perception for Humanoid Robots45
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FAST-LIVO2: Fast, Direct LiDAR–Inertial–Visual Odometry44
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Kinetostatic Modeling of Tendon-Driven Parallel Continuum Robots44
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Selective, Robust, and Precision Manipulation of Particles in Complex Environments With Ultrasonic Phased Transducer Array and Microscope44
Optimal and Robust Category-Level Perception: Object Pose and Shape Estimation From 2-D and 3-D Semantic Keypoints44
Measurement Simplification in $\rho$-POMDP with Performance Guarantees44
Safe MPC Alignment With Human Directional Feedback44
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A Unilateral Active Knee Exoskeleton to Assist Individuals With Hemiparesis—A Pilot Study43
Accelerated Reeds–Shepp and Underspecified Reeds–Shepp Algorithms for Mobile Robot Path Planning42
CMRNext: Camera to LiDAR Matching in the Wild for Localization and Extrinsic Calibration42
Design of an Adaptive Lightweight LiDAR to Decouple Robot–Camera Geometry42
Learning-Based Visual-Strain Fusion for Eye-in-Hand Continuum Robot Pose Estimation and Control42
HiMo: High-Speed Objects Motion Compensation in Point Clouds42
KDF: Kinodynamic Motion Planning via Geometric Sampling-Based Algorithms and Funnel Control42
Spatio-Temporal Motion Retargeting for Quadruped Robots42
From Flies to Robots: Inverted Landing in Small Quadcopters With Dynamic Perching42
Characterizing Multidimensional Capacitive Servoing for Physical Human–Robot Interaction42
Coil-Reinforced Flat Tube Actuators for Robotic Applications41
Hybrid Soft-Rigid Elbow Exosuit: Theory, Mechatronic Design, and Experimental Assessment41
Exo-Abs: A Wearable Robotic System Inspired by Human Abdominal Muscles for Noninvasive and Effort-Synchronized Respiratory Assistance41
Robust Active Visual Perching With Quadrotors on Inclined Surfaces41
Enhancing the Performance of a Biomimetic Robotic Elbow-and-Forearm System Through Bionics-Inspired Optimization41
Bidirectional Energy Flow Modulation for Passive Admittance Control41
ANYexo 2.0: A Fully Actuated Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Manipulation and Joint-Oriented Training in All Stages of Rehabilitation41
Continual Learning of Regions for Efficient Robot Localization on Large Maps41
Byzantine Resilient Distributed Learning in Multirobot Systems41
Neurosymbolic Motion and Task Planning for Linear Temporal Logic Tasks41
A Distributed, Event-Triggered, Adaptive Controller for Cooperative Manipulation With Rolling Contacts41
Model Predictive Interaction Control for Robotic Manipulation Tasks40
Interaction Control of a Robotic Manipulator With the Surface of Deformable Object40
Design, Development, and Control of a Hand/Wrist Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation and Training40
Magnetically Controlled Modular Cubes With Reconfigurable Self-Assembly and Disassembly40
VINGS-Mono: Visual-Inertial Gaussian Splatting Monocular SLAM in Large Scenes39
Soft Robots Modeling: A Structured Overview39
Trajectory Optimization of Chance-Constrained Nonlinear Stochastic Systems for Motion Planning Under Uncertainty39
iDb-A*: Iterative Search and Optimization for Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning39
AnyUser: Translating Sketched User Intent into Domestic Robots39
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Malleable Robots: Reconfigurable Robotic Arms With Continuum Links of Variable Stiffness37
Optical Tactile Sensing for Aerial Multicontact Interaction: Design, Integration, and Evaluation37
Fast and Accurate 6-D Object Pose Refinement via Implicit Surface Optimization37
Algorithms and Systems for Manipulating Multiple Objects37
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Active Inference for Bandit-Based Autonomous Robotic Exploration With Dynamic Preferences37
Perfectly Undetectable Reflection and Scaling False Data Injection Attacks via Affine Transformation on Mobile Robot Trajectory Tracking Control37
Latent Space Planning for Multiobject Manipulation With Environment-Aware Relational Classifiers37
Strain-Based Shape and 3-D Force Estimation for Rod-Driven Continuum Robots With Stretch Sensors36
Achieving Subpixel Platform Accuracy With Pan–Tilt–Zoom Cameras in Uncertain Times36
Autonomous Flights Inside Narrow Tunnels36
Quori: A Community-Informed Design of a Socially Interactive Humanoid Robot36
Interactive Autonomous Navigation With Internal State Inference and Interactivity Estimation36
Variable Stiffness Soft Robotic Fingers Using Snap-Fit Kinematic Reconfiguration36
Toward Accurate, Efficient, and Robust RGB-D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Challenging Environments35
Confidence-Aware Object Capture for a Manipulator Subject to Floating-Base Disturbances35
OmniMap: A General Mapping Framework Integrating Optics, Geometry, and Semantics35
EVOLVER: Online Learning and Prediction of Disturbances for Robot Control35
Evaluation of a Fused Sonomyography and Electromyography-Based Control on a Cable-Driven Ankle Exoskeleton35
Shape Tracking and Feedback Control of Cardiac Catheter Using MRI-Guided Robotic Platform—Validation With Pulmonary Vein Isolation Simulator in MRI35
Global Model Learning for Large Deformation Control of Elastic Deformable Linear Objects: An Efficient and Adaptive Approach35
Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems34
Redundancy Resolution at Position Level34
Load-Transfer Suspended Backpack With Bioinspired Vibration Isolation for Shoulder Pressure Reduction Across Diverse Terrains34
Cosserat-Rod-Based Dynamic Modeling of Soft Slender Robot Interacting With Environment34
Energy Aware Impedance Control of a Flying End-Effector in the Port-Hamiltonian Framework34
FAST-LIO2: Fast Direct LiDAR-Inertial Odometry34
Biomimetic Morphing Quadrotor Inspired by Eagle Claw for Dynamic Grasping34
Applications of Spiking Neural Networks in Visual Place Recognition34
PH-Gauss-Lobatto Reduced-Order-Model for Shape Control of Soft-Continuum Manipulators34
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Efficient Routing for Multitruck Multidrone Package Delivery With Precedence Constraints34
Stabilization of Complementarity Systems via Contact-Aware Controllers33
A Propagation Perspective on Recursive Forward Dynamics for Systems With Kinematic Loops33
Port-Hamiltonian Neural ODE Networks on Lie Groups for Robot Dynamics Learning and Control33
Temporal Transfer Learning for Traffic Optimization with Coarse-Grained Advisory Autonomy33
Nonlinear Modeling of the Finite Helical Deformation of 3D-Printed PneuNets33
Continuous Occupancy Mapping in Dynamic Environments Using Particles33
Log-GPIS-MOP: A Unified Representation for Mapping, Odometry, and Planning33
Object-Centric Kinodynamic Planning for Nonprehensile Robot Rearrangement Manipulation33
On the Evaluation of Collision Probability Along a Path33
A Closed-Chain Approach to Generating Affordance Joint Trajectories for Robotic Manipulators32
Robotic Snake Locomotion Exploiting Body Compliance and Uniform Body Tensions32
SDRS: Shape-Differentiable Robot Simulator32
SSDVM: A Sliding Strip Discrete Vortex Method Applied to Hydrodynamic Calculations for Robotic Fish32
Design, Modeling, and Control of a Coaxial Drone31
LAMP: Learning a Motion Policy to Repeatedly Navigate in an Uncertain Environment31
Design, Control, and Psychophysics of Tasbi: A Force-Controlled Multimodal Haptic Bracelet31
Design of a New Bio-Inspired Dual-Axis Compliant Micromanipulator With Millimeter Strokes30
Circular Accessible Depth: A Robust Traversability Representation for UGV Navigation30
Design and Benchmarking of a Multimodality Sensor for Robotic Manipulation With GAN-Based Cross-Modality Interpretation30
Certifiable Object Pose Estimation: Foundations, Learning Models, and Self-Training30
Automatic Synthesis of 1-DOF Transformable Wheel Mechanisms30
Cosserat Rod Modeling of Continuum Robots from Newtonian and Lagrangian Perspectives30
Stratified Topological Autonomy for Long-Range Coordination (STALC)30
Ultrasound Image-Based Average $Q$-Learning Control of Magnetic Microrobots30
Multimodal Learning of Keypoint Predictive Models for Visual Object Manipulation30
Enabling Versatility and Dexterity of the Dual-Arm Manipulators: A General Framework Toward Universal Cooperative Manipulation30
Robust Task-Space Quadratic Programming for Kinematic-Controlled Robots30
Topology-Driven Parallel Trajectory Optimization in Dynamic Environments30
Attribute-Based Robotic Grasping With Data-Efficient Adaptation30
Structure-to-Shape Aortic 3-D Deformation Reconstruction for Endovascular Interventions29
On Radiation-Based Thermal Servoing: New Models, Controls, and Experiments29
Fast Contact-Implicit Model Predictive Control29
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Probabilistic Approach to Feedback Control Enhances Multilegged Locomotion on Rugged Landscapes29
Fast and Robust Online Initialization of Monocular Visual-Inertial Odometry via One-Dimensional Cost Approximation28
Variable Stiffness Linear Actuator Based on Differential Drive Fiber Jamming28
Energy-Efficient Path Planning of Reconfigurable Robots in Complex Environments28
Interagent Beliefs for Learning to Communicate in Large-Scale Multirobot Visual Object Search28
Learning Stable Models for Prediction and Control28
Occlusion-Robust Autonomous Robotic Manipulation of Human Soft Tissues With 3-D Surface Feedback28
AVOCADO: Adaptive Optimal Collision Avoidance Driven by Opinion28
Soft Synergies: Model Order Reduction of Hybrid Soft-Rigid Robots via Optimal Strain Parameterization28
RACER: Rapid Collaborative Exploration With a Decentralized Multi-UAV System28
Multirobot Adversarial Resilience Using Control Barrier Functions28
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