OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Field Robotics is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
	177
A Hybrid Parameters Estimation Approach for Power Consumption Modeling of Ground Mobile Robots With Unknown Payload	87
	86
UAMFDet: Acoustic‐Optical Fusion for Underwater Multi‐Modal Object Detection	58
Active Sensing Strategy: Multi‐Modal, Multi‐Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real‐World Settings With Fixed One‐Way Switching	55
Heterogeneous Event Mapping of Multi‐Robot System Based on Event Structures	54
Precise pose estimation of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through a stereo‐vision‐based approach	54
An improved fuzzy‐controlled local path planning algorithm based on dynamic window approach	53
Practical path planning techniques in overtaking for autonomous shuttles	52
Unmanned air/ground vehicle survey following a radiological dispersal event	51
	50
Gyroscopic precession control for maneuvering two‐wheeled robot recoil stabilization	47
Three‐dimensional dead reckoning of wall‐climbing robot based on information fusion of compound extended Kalman filter	47
Using a Small Hexapod Robot to Pick up Large Cylinders for Munitions Response	47
Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field	46
YOLOv4‐tiny‐based robust RGB‐D SLAM approach with point and surface feature fusion in complex indoor environments	46
Rapid Detection of Ripe Tomatoes in Unstructured Environments	45
Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots	42
AutoMine: A Multimodal Dataset for Robot Navigation in Open‐Pit Mines	42
	40
Bidirectional Multimodal Fusion for Point Cloud Segmentation of Navigable Areas in Complex Field Emergency Environments	40
Comparative study of soil interaction and driving characteristics of different agricultural and space robots in an agricultural environment	39
A Soft‐Containing Gripper for High‐Speed Handling of Breadcrumb‐Coated Oysters	38
Nonlinear Optimal and Multi‐Loop Flatness‐Based Control for Dual‐UAV Cooperative Load Transportation	38
Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection	36

A stereo visual navigation method for docking autonomous underwater vehicles	35
	34
Control Method of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Better Assistance: A Comprehensive Review	34
Inside Back Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	33
Issue Information	31
Development of a Machine Vision‐Based Walk‐Behind Cotton Fertilizer Applicator	31
A Robust Transformer–Based Error Compensation Method for Gyroscope of IMUs	31