OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Field Robotics is 33. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	78
	75
Unmanned air/ground vehicle survey following a radiological dispersal event	71
Three‐dimensional dead reckoning of wall‐climbing robot based on information fusion of compound extended Kalman filter	70
Bidirectional Multimodal Fusion for Point Cloud Segmentation of Navigable Areas in Complex Field Emergency Environments	69
	67
AutoMine: A Multimodal Dataset for Robot Navigation in Open‐Pit Mines	65
Using a Small Hexapod Robot to Pick up Large Cylinders for Munitions Response	64
Gyroscopic precession control for maneuvering two‐wheeled robot recoil stabilization	63
Rapid Detection of Ripe Tomatoes in Unstructured Environments	60
Comparative study of soil interaction and driving characteristics of different agricultural and space robots in an agricultural environment	59
Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection	51
Nonlinear Optimal and Multi‐Loop Flatness‐Based Control for Dual‐UAV Cooperative Load Transportation	51
LMBC: Low‐Power Marine Benthos Counting Framework for Underwater Robotic Real‐Time Applications	51
A Low‐Drift Legged Robot State‐Estimation System Through Combined Physics‐Informed Contact Estimation Network and Full Joint State	50
A Hybrid Parameters Estimation Approach for Power Consumption Modeling of Ground Mobile Robots With Unknown Payload	48
Real‐Time Detection of Undesired Human Interventions in Robotic Work Cells Using a Convolutional Neural Network‐Based Novel Architecture and Reliability Analysis With Explainable Artificial Intelligen	47
Active Sensing Strategy: Multi‐Modal, Multi‐Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real‐World Settings With Fixed One‐Way Switching	46
Heterogeneous Event Mapping of Multi‐Robot System Based on Event Structures	45
Motion Control and Experimental Verification of a Continuum Aerial Manipulator for Power Grid Maintenance Operations	42
A stereo visual navigation method for docking autonomous underwater vehicles	42
Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots	41
YOLOv4‐tiny‐based robust RGB‐D SLAM approach with point and surface feature fusion in complex indoor environments	37
Control Method of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Better Assistance: A Comprehensive Review	36

Precise pose estimation of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through a stereo‐vision‐based approach	36
An improved fuzzy‐controlled local path planning algorithm based on dynamic window approach	36
UAMFDet: Acoustic‐Optical Fusion for Underwater Multi‐Modal Object Detection	36
A Soft‐Containing Gripper for High‐Speed Handling of Breadcrumb‐Coated Oysters	35
Long future frame prediction using optical flow‐informed deep neural networks for enhancement of robotic teleoperation in high latency environments	34
Visual Inertial SLAM Based on Spatiotemporal Consistency Optimization in Diverse Environments	34
Turbid Underwater Image Enhancement via Attenuation Prior Formation Model	34
Advanced Deep Learning Architecture for Real‐Time Online Train Tread Segmentation and Wear Detection	34
Collaborative Sampling and Imaging of Phytoplankton Communities by Two Long‐Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Acoustic Tracking and Messaging	33
Vector Field‐Based Collision‐Free Navigation in Tunnel‐Like Environments	33