Journal of Field Robotics

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A Hybrid Parameters Estimation Approach for Power Consumption Modeling of Ground Mobile Robots With Unknown Payload	102
Bidirectional Multimodal Fusion for Point Cloud Segmentation of Navigable Areas in Complex Field Emergency Environments	80
Gyroscopic precession control for maneuvering two‐wheeled robot recoil stabilization	76
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Using a Small Hexapod Robot to Pick up Large Cylinders for Munitions Response	54
UAMFDet: Acoustic‐Optical Fusion for Underwater Multi‐Modal Object Detection	53
A stereo visual navigation method for docking autonomous underwater vehicles	53
YOLOv4‐tiny‐based robust RGB‐D SLAM approach with point and surface feature fusion in complex indoor environments	50
Active Sensing Strategy: Multi‐Modal, Multi‐Robot Source Localization and Mapping in Real‐World Settings With Fixed One‐Way Switching	50
Precise pose estimation of the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover through a stereo‐vision‐based approach	49
Comparative study of soil interaction and driving characteristics of different agricultural and space robots in an agricultural environment	44
Heterogeneous Event Mapping of Multi‐Robot System Based on Event Structures	43
Rapid Detection of Ripe Tomatoes in Unstructured Environments	43
Practical path planning techniques in overtaking for autonomous shuttles	41
An improved fuzzy‐controlled local path planning algorithm based on dynamic window approach	41
AutoMine: A Multimodal Dataset for Robot Navigation in Open‐Pit Mines	39
Unmanned air/ground vehicle survey following a radiological dispersal event	38
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Three‐dimensional dead reckoning of wall‐climbing robot based on information fusion of compound extended Kalman filter	36
Control Method of Upper Limb Rehabilitation Exoskeleton for Better Assistance: A Comprehensive Review	35
Development of a mobile robot for safe mechanical evacuation of hazardous bulk materials in industrial confined spaces	35
Overview of Terrain Traversability Evaluation for Autonomous Robots	34
Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field	33
A Soft‐Containing Gripper for High‐Speed Handling of Breadcrumb‐Coated Oysters	33

Nautilus: An autonomous surface vehicle with a multilayer software architecture for offshore inspection	33
Vision‐assisted deep stall landing for a fixed‐wing UAV	30
A benchmark analysis of data‐driven and geometric approaches for robot ego‐motion estimation	30
In situ skid estimation for mobile robots in outdoor environments	30
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Inside Back Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	29
Turbid Underwater Image Enhancement via Attenuation Prior Formation Model	29
Development of a Machine Vision‐Based Walk‐Behind Cotton Fertilizer Applicator	28
Assessing the practical applicability of neural‐based point clouds registration algorithms: A comparative analysis	28
A Robust Transformer–Based Error Compensation Method for Gyroscope of IMUs	27
A Two‐Stage Recognition and Planning Approach for Grasping Manipulators and Design of End‐Effectors	27
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Visual Inertial SLAM Based on Spatiotemporal Consistency Optimization in Diverse Environments	27
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Toward a Track‐Fin Hybrid Driven Bionic Amphibious Robot: Design, Development, and Experiments	26
Expediting recovery of autonomous underwater vehicles in dynamic mission environments: A system‐of‐systems challenge for underwater warfare	26
Four years of multimodal odometry and mapping on the rail vehicles	25
LiDAR‐based automated UAV inspection of wind turbine rotor blades	25
Research on Steering Path Tracking Performance of Articulated Quad‐Tracked Vehicle Based on Fuzzy PID Control	25
Performance evaluation of newly released cameras for fruit detection and localization in complex kiwifruit orchard environments	24
SiaRDFNet: Leveraging Siamese Architecture With ResNet‐DenseNet Fusion for Accurate Root Disease Classification	24
Long future frame prediction using optical flow‐informed deep neural networks for enhancement of robotic teleoperation in high latency environments	23
Achievements and future directions in self‐reconfigurable modular robotic systems	23
Power and energy consumption of skid‐steer rovers turning on loose soil	23
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Digital Twin/MARS‐CycleGAN: Enhancing Sim‐to‐Real Crop/Row Detection for MARS Phenotyping Robot Using Synthetic Images	22
A drone‐based photometric measurement platform	22
A Framework to Enable Eco‐Cyber‐Physical Systems for Robotics‐Focused Digital Twins in Smart Farming	21
Under‐Ice Odometry Fusing Acoustic and Visual Information for Underwater Vehicles	21
A comprehensive review on deploying robotics application in telecom network tower's field maintenance: Challenges with current practices and feasibility analysis for robotics implementation	21
Terrain‐aware path planning via semantic segmentation and uncertainty rejection filter with adversarial noise for mobile robots	21
Visual‐Inertial SLAM for Unstructured Outdoor Environments: Benchmarking the Benefits and Computational Costs of Loop Closing	21
Puttybot: A sensorized robot for autonomous putty plastering	21
Dynamic Docking Anti‐Disturbance Control of Overactuated AUV: System, Method, and Lake Trails	21
Longitudinal deep truck: Deep longitudinal model with application to sim2real deep reinforcement learning for heavy‐duty truck control in the field	20
Design and field test of a foldable wing unmanned aerial–underwater vehicle	19
Optimization and evaluation of machine–field parameters of remotely controlled two‐wheel paddy transplanter	19
Design and development of remote‐control system for two‐wheel paddy transplanter	18
A high‐resolution AUV navigation framework with integrated communication and tracking for under‐ice deployments	18
A strawberry harvest‐aiding system with crop‐transport collaborative robots: Design, development, and field evaluation	18
TetraFLEX: Design and kinematic analysis of a novel self‐aligning family of 3T1R parallel manipulators	18
Mobile robotics platform for strawberry sensing and harvesting within precision indoor farming systems	17
An autonomous ground robot to support firefighters' interventions in indoor emergencies	16
A cable‐driven underwater robotic system for delicate manipulation of marine biology samples	16
Design and performance analysis of soft pneumatic manipulator‐based linear cutter and stem holder for sweet pepper harvesting	16
Optimizing PID control for enhanced stability of a 16‐DOF biped robot during ditch crossing	16
Interaction mechanics model for screw‐drive wheel of granary robot traveling on the loose grain terrain	16
Fast and incremental loop closure detection with deep features and proximity graphs	15
FCN‐YOLOS: An Effective Deep‐Learning Model for Real‐Time Object Detection	15

MARCEL: Mobile active rover chassis for enhanced locomotion	15
Paddy field object detection for robotic combine based on real‐time semantic segmentation algorithm	15
Learning‐Based Rapid Phase‐Aberration Correction and Control for Robot‐Assisted MRI‐Guided Low‐/High‐Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatments	15
Time–jerk optimal trajectory planning for industrial robots with coupled interpolation function selection	15
FTR‐Bench: Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flipper‐Track Robot Control	15
Towards Damage‐Less Robotic Fragile Fruit Grasping: A Systematic Review on System Design, End Effector, and Visual and Tactile Feedback	15
Influence of screw blades on the performance of a screw‐drive granary robot	15
Earthwork digital twin for teleoperation of an automated bulldozer in edge dumping	14
Attention mechanism‐based multisensor data fusion neural network for fault diagnosis of autonomous underwater vehicles	14
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Tracking Mooring Lines of Floating Structures by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	14
Correction to “Aerial online mapping on‐board system by real‐time object detection for UGV path generation in unstructured outdoor environments”	14
INF‐SLiM: Large‐Scale Implicit Neural Fields for Semantic LiDAR Mapping of Embodied AI Agents	14
A CIELAB fusion‐based generative adversarial network for reliable sand–dust removal in open‐pit mines	14
Characteristics of optical flow from aerial thermal imaging, “thermal flow”	13
Underwater multizonotope terrain‐aided navigation method with coarse map based on set‐membership filter	13
A Spiral Coverage Path Planning Algorithm for Nonomnidirectional Robots	13
An online optimization escape entrapment strategy for planetary rovers based on Bayesian optimization	13
Target Localization and Pursuit With Networked Robotic Vehicles: Theory, Simulation, and Experiments	13
SAPT: A Hierarchical Sliced Anchor Point Transformer for LiDAR Point Cloud in Robot Perception	13
Lower Limb Exoskeletons, Application‐Centric Classifications: A Review	13
Safety Inspections and Gas Monitoring in Hazardous Mining Areas Shortly After Blasting Using Autonomous UAVs	13
Design and manufacturing a novel screw‐in‐pipe inspection robot with steering capability	12
Hybridization of ResNet with YOLO classifier for automated paddy leaf disease recognition: An optimized model	12
Pose‐graph underwater simultaneous localization and mapping for autonomous monitoring and 3D reconstruction by means of optical and acoustic sensors	12
Inverse Kinematics Solution and Application of a 5‐DoF Robotic Arm Based on an Improved Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm	12
Lessons from robot‐assisted disaster response deployments by the German Rescue Robotics Center task force	12
A motion control framework for autonomous water sampling and swing‐free transportation of a multirotor UAV with a cable‐suspended mechanism	12
Geometry‐based flipper motion planning for articulated tracked robots traversing rough terrain in real‐time	12
Design and analysis of a wall‐climbing robot for water wall inspection of thermal power plants	12
Performance‐Oriented Understanding and Design of a Robotic Tadpole: Lower Energy Cost, Higher Speed	12
Generalizing minimum safe operating altitudes for fixed‐wing UAVs in real‐time	12
RumexWeeds: A grassland dataset for agricultural robotics	12
An Enhanced Navigation System With Predictive Motion Planning for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in GNSS‐Attenuated Dynamic Urban Waterways	11
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Complete coverage path planning for wheeled agricultural robots	11
A Novel Review on Quadruped Robots Design Variants, Gait Modulation, and Motion Planning Schemes	11
Morphlight Theory Inspired by Raptor: Arm‐Wing Cooperative Control Method and its Application	11
Adaptive‐Based Non‐Singular Terminal Sliding Mode Control of a Three DOF Spatial Robotic Manipulator	11
Towards autonomous selective harvesting: A review of robot perception, robot design, motion planning and control	11
Robot self‐calibration using actuated 3D sensors	11
Robust control scheme based on an uncertainty and disturbance estimator for a quadrotor with motor failures	11
Change Detection of Non‐Fixed Targets in Low‐Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Inspections Based on Style Transfer	11
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Design and Development of an Intelligent Collision Avoidance Platform for a Teleoperated Dual Robotic Arm	11
Efficient Inverse Kinematics Solution for Industrial Robotic Arms: NR Iterative Based on IDBO‐BPNN Prediction	10
Robust High‐Order Sliding Mode Control for Collecting Objects by a Wheeled Space Rover With a Multi‐Articulated Arm	10
Degeneracy‐Resistant LiDAR‐SLAM Algorithm Based on Geometric and Visual Features' Fusion	10
Toward Universal Embodied Planning in Scalable Heterogeneous Field Robots Collaboration and Control	10
Development of an Air Pulse Jet Robot for Efficient Dust Removal in Air‐Cooled Condensers Under Harsh Industrial Conditions	10
UV‐C Disinfection Robots: A Systematic Review	10
A review of soft manipulator research, applications, and opportunities	10
A Map Segmentation Method Based on Image Processing for Robot Complete Coverage Operation	10
Underwater UXO detection using magnetometry on hovering AUVs	10
Autonomous Positioning for Mobile Vehicles Based on Visual‐Inertial Fusion in Challenging Dark Roadway Scenes	10
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Two novel approaches for solving the contradiction between efficient penetration and low recoil for the low‐velocity penetrator	10
Design and Analysis of New Obstacle Avoidance Scheme With Dimensionality Reduction for Motion Planning of Redundant Robot Manipulators	9
Auxetic and Holonomic Mobile Robot for Enhanced Navigation in Constrained Terrains	9
Internal Model‐Based Anti‐Disturbances Low‐Level Control for Drones Considering Actuator Dynamics	9
Building information modeling‐based 3D reconstruction and coverage planning enabled automatic painting of interior walls using a novel painting robot in construction	9
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A Machine Learning–Based Ergonomic Assessment of Wireless Hand Control System for Lower‐Limb Disabled Tractor Operators and Abled Female Agricultural Workers	9
Optimization‐Based Geometric Enhancement and Motion Estimation for Non‐Cooperative Spacecrafts	9
An automated apple harvesting robot—From system design to field evaluation	9
Formation Control and Experiment for Propeller‐Driven Car‐Like Robots With Amplitude and Rate Saturation Under Jointly Connected Topology	9
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Efficient and multifidelity terrain modeling for 3D large‐scale and unstructured environments	9
Design and Analysis of Double‐Ring Robotic Coconut Tree Climber for Enhanced Performance	9
Optimizing Resource Allocation in Multi‐Robot Systems Through Game‐Theoretic Strategies: A Two‐Stage Model Approach	9
Optimal guidance track generation for precision agriculture: A review of coverage path planning techniques	9
A Novel Multinozzle Targeting Pollination Robot for Clustered Kiwifruit Flowers Based on Air–Liquid Dual‐Flow Spraying	9
SensHB.Q: A Cost‐Effective Force‐Sensitive Handlebar to Control Omnidirectional Robots and Wheelchairs	8
A comprehensive survey on non‐cooperative collision avoidance for micro aerial vehicles: Sensing and obstacle detection	8
Experimental Evaluation of an Observer‐Based Controller for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Reforestation Activities	8
Study of a Cable‐Driven Hip Swimming‐Assisted Exoskeleton Utilizing Adaptive Active Control Strategy	8
ADRC‐SMC‐based disturbance rejection depth‐tracking control of underactuated AUV	8
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Rapid location technology of odor sources by multi‐UAV	8

UAV‐based simultaneous localization and mapping in outdoor environments: A systematic scoping review	8
Learning‐based model predictive control for improved mobile robot path following using Gaussian processes and feedback linearization	8
Continuous Curvature Path Planning for Headland Coverage With Agricultural Robots	8
Independent Soft Actor‐Critic Deep Reinforcement Learning for UAV Cooperative Air Combat Maneuvering Decision‐Making	8
Utilizing Photovoltaic Solar Panels for Real‐Time Localization and Speed Detection of Approaching Illuminated Objects in Humanoid Robots	8
Challenges and Advances in Underwater Sonar Systems and AI‐Driven Signal Processing for Modern Naval Operations: A Systematic Review	8
Predictive Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm for Under‐Actuated Unmanned Surface Vehicle Under Disturbances via Reinforcement Learning	8
RoboBoat: A robotic boat for 3D mapping of partially flooded underground sites	8
High‐Throughput Robotic Phenotyping for Quantifying Tomato Disease Severity Enabled by Synthetic Data and Domain‐Adaptive Semantic Segmentation	8
Development of an automated mobile robotic sprayer to prevent workers' exposure of agro‐chemicals inside polyhouse	8
A portable off‐road crawling hexapod robot	8
Uncertainty‐aware LiDAR‐based localization for outdoor mobile robots	8
Real‐time vibration monitoring and analysis of agricultural tractor drivers using an IoT‐based system	7
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ASAH: An arc‐surface‐adsorption hexapod robot with a motion control scheme	7
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Optimization and evaluation of swing leg retraction for a hydraulic biped robot	7
SimLiquid: A Simulation‐Based Liquid Perception Pipeline for Robot Liquid Manipulation	7
A simulation‐assisted point cloud segmentation neural network for human–robot interaction applications	7
Research on disturbance rejection motion control method of USV for UUV recovery	7
Cover Image, Volume 39, Number 7, October 2022	7
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Exploring the feasibility of autonomous forestry operations: Results from the first experimental unmanned machine	7
Position‐based fluid simulation for robotic injection sealing of pavement cracks	7
Effectiveness of an Expendable Unmanned Ground Vehicle Stalling a Mechanized Infantry Company's Primary Combat Units—A Virtual Simulation Experiment	7
Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	7
Development and Field Evaluation of a Radial Large‐Stroke Adaptive End‐Effector for Continuous Robotic Harvesting of Banana Fruits at Different Stalk Diameters	7
Corrigendum for “Fast and incremental loop closure detection with deep features and proximity graphs”	7
Cover Image, Volume 40, Number 8, December 2023	7
VTOL Air Vehicle With Fixed‐Inclined Rotors and a Rudder Vane	7
Swarm Intelligence in Action: Particle Swarm Optimization and Rendezvous Algorithms for Swarm Robotics	7
Bolster Spring Visual Servo Positioning Method Based on Depth Online Detection	6
FastFusion: Deep stereo‐LiDAR fusion for real‐time high‐precision dense depth sensing	6
Tractor Mounted Grapevine Pruning System	6
COAL: Robust Contrastive Learning‐Based Visual Navigation Framework	6
Recurrent Neural Network–Based Nonlinear Orientation Control of Redundant Stewart Platform	6
Development of Large Wingspan Flapping‐Wing Flying Robots With Improved Efficiency by Rigid‐Flexible Coupling Flapping Mechanism	6
Back Cover Image, Volume 42, Number 6, September 2025	6
LMFFNet: Lightweight Multiscale Feature Fusion Network for Underwater Structural Defect Detection	6
ASV station keeping under wind disturbances using neural network simulation error minimization model predictive control	6
A Path Planning Algorithm for UAV 3D Surface Inspection Based on Normal Vector Filtering and Integrated Viewpoint Evaluation	6
A Fully Automated Robotic System for Tuning Optimization of RF Cavity Filter	6
A Robust Pose Estimation Method for Robot Grasping in Bin‐Picking Scenarios Using Point Cloud	6
Comparison of DSO and ORB‐SLAM3 in Low‐Light Environments With Auxiliary Lighting and Deep Learning Based Image Enhancing	6
Fast Swimming Robot Fish Under Countercurrent, Complex Trajectory, and Heavy Load Environments	6
Position‐based force tracking adaptive impedance control strategy for robot grinding complex surfaces system	6
Design and Analysis of a Lightweight Redundant‐Degree‐of‐Freedom Fruit‐Picking Robot Arm	5
Cascaded Extended‐State‐Observer‐Based Synergetic Control for Quadcopter Translational Dynamics	5
An efficient online citrus counting system for large‐scale unstructured orchards based on the unmanned aerial vehicle	5
Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Multi‐Joint Manipulator Based on Multi‐Information Fusion and Deep‐Learning Machine Vision	5
Development of disaster‐responding special‐purpose machinery: Results of experiments	5
Dynamics identification‐driven diving control for unmanned underwater vehicles	5
Geometry‐Aware 3D Point Cloud Learning for Precise Cutting‐Point Detection in Unstructured Field Environments	5
Application of automated and robotically deployed in situ X‐ray fluorescence analysis for nuclear waste management	5
The Design of Endovascular Robots for Cardiac Interventions: A Survey	5
From “Mirror Flower, Water Moon” to Multi‐Task Visual Prospective Representation Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Indoor Mapless Navigation	5
Mechanical Design and Redundant Motion Planning of a Hydraulic Quadruped Mobile Manipulator for Enlarging Operational Workspace	5
3D hybrid path planning for optimized coverage of agricultural fields: A novel approach for wheeled robots	5
Automated mission planning for aerial large‐scale power plant thermal inspection	5
PLPF‐VSLAM: An indoor visual SLAM with adaptive fusion of point‐line‐plane features	5
Deep learning with RGB and thermal images onboard a drone for monitoring operations	5
A Reliable Omnidirectional Acoustic Guidance Method for AUV Recovery and Homing	5
TKO‐SLAM: Visual SLAM algorithm based on time‐delay feature regression and keyframe pose optimization	5
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Modular autonomous strawberry picking robotic system	5
An omnidirectional screw‐driven forestry robot	5
A new method for calculating time‐varying torsional stiffness of RV reducers with variable loads and tooth modifications	5
A differentiable dynamic modeling approach to integrated motion planning and actuator physical design for mobile manipulators	5
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Design and Implementation of an Underwater Structural Inspection Robot for High‐Flow Environments	5
Cooperative 3D tunnel measurement based on 2D–3D registration of omnidirectional laser light	5
Learning Accurate and Robust Velocity Tracking for Quadrupedal Robots	4
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Topological map‐based approach for localization and mapping memory optimization	4
Design and implementation of shape‐adaptive and multifunctional robotic gripper	4
Parallel Byzantine Fault Tolerance Consensus for Blockchain Secured Swarm Robots	4
Multiposture leg tracking for temporarily vision restricted environments based on fusion of laser and radar sensor data	4
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The SG‐Climbot: An Adaptable, Efficient, Inspection and Repair Robot for Steam Generator Heat Transfer Tube Sheet	4
Movement Environment Assessment and Force Prediction for Quadruped Robots	4
In‐Pipe Maintenance Robot Using Spray‐In‐Place Pipe Technique for Long‐Distance and Complex Pipe Environment	4
ARD‐VO: Agricultural robot data set of vineyards and olive groves	4
Q‐Whex: A simple and highly mobile quasi‐wheeled hexapod robot	4
Design and analysis of a bionic‐inspired single‐rotor MAV with a foldable wing	4
Deep learning‐based crop row detection for infield navigation of agri‐robots	4
Adaptive Prescribed‐Time Control for Marine Surface Vehicles: A Time‐Varying Gain Approach	4
Collaborative Robotics: Application of Delphi Method	4
PhytoPatholoBot: Autonomous Ground Robot for Near‐Real‐Time Disease Scouting in the Vineyard	4
Performance Analysis of Cobalt Chromium Alloy Based Femoral Knee Components Polishing Using Industrial IRB 2400 Robot	4
An Efficient 3D Point Cloud‐Based Place Recognition Approach for Underground Tunnels Using Convolution and Self‐Attention Mechanism	4
Experimental tests of hybrid VTOL unmanned aerial vehicle designed for surveillance missions and operations in maritime conditions from ship‐based helipads	4
Minimum‐time row transition control of a vision‐guided agricultural robot	4
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Autonomous Underwater Helicopter‐HY‐1: Design and Field Trials of a Seabed Operational Vehicle	4
Mechanics of bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion on dry and wet granular media	4